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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dead Batteries. He is not exaggerating. In anticipation of the SX-70's debut, investors bid the price of Polaroid as high as $149 a share in 1972-at about the time that Polaroid's Founding Genius Edwin H. Land first demonstrated the camera to shareholders. By 1974, the stock's price had plunged as low as $14; it closed last week at $36. Like many other issues, Polaroid's stock was clipped by the vicious shake-out among high flying glamour stocks...
...record $800 million, and profits probably about doubled. That performance, plus the Pronto's potential, should put Polaroid in a good position to do battle with Eastman Kodak, which is expected to enter the instant-picture market at about the time of the Pronto's national debut. Supersecretive Kodak is not saying just what kind of system it will market. Whatever it is, Polaroid President William J. McCune Jr., 60, who has taken over the company's day-to-day operations from Founder Land, says that Polaroid has been "planning for it." A $4 million Pronto advertising...
...America football player. He went on to Columbia University Law School, where he took a degree in 1923. Robeson turned early to singing and brought to Negro spirituals and other work and folk songs a voice of stunning richness and emotional power. A commanding actor, he made his stage debut in 1922, impressing Playwright Eugene O'Neill and beginning a friendship that led to starring roles in a string of O'Neill plays (All God's Chillun Got Wings, The Hairy Ape and The Emperor Jones). Robeson's most spectacular stage triumph after Show Boat...
...campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is usually known as the place where McGuffey's Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football. After last week it may also be remembered as the site of the U.S. debut of the latest in a long line of Russian pianists that includes Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. Lazar Berman, 45, is unknown in the U.S. and Western Europe. But collectors of Soviet recordings, as well as many pianists throughout the world, have for years praised his talent...
Berman is a virtuoso whose blinding technique appears an easy rival to that of Vladimir Horowitz. Yet Berman's is a humble kind of virtuosity that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves...