Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scrapping plans for the biochemistry building was money. The project required some $6.6 million, which just didn't appear. In fact, with the economic decline, little money at all was appearing. But at least one industry--the Polaroid Corporation--was hardly affected by the recession and its president, Edwin H. Land, still had plenty of money on hand. So much so that at Commencement in June 1968. Land gave the University an anonymous lump-sum donation of $12.6 million dollars earmarked specifically for the construction of an Undergraduate Science Center. With the addition of the interest accruing on Land...
...near $1,000,000 campaign mounted by California businessmen to warn of an economic apocalypse if Proposition Nine, a "Clean Environment" initiative, is approved by the state's voters in next week's primary. The initiative is the brainchild of a former Sacramento car dealer named Edwin Koupal and his wife Joyce. Originally, back in 1969, they set out only to fight Los Angeles smog. "I couldn't believe people could really live in that air," says Joyce Koupal. "My first reaction was, 'Why don't they outlaw it?' " The Koupals began collecting signatures...
...more civil politics. But it is not a national disease or a case of national guilt that deserves the world's condemnation. In the long run, it is more useful to try to understand America-no simple matter-than to write off the entire country as uncontrollably Violent. "Edwin Warner...
Waiting impatiently for the routine business portion of Polaroid's annual meeting in Needham, Mass., to end last week, Founder Edwin Land told some 3,000 stockholders: "I don't want what you are about to see to be involved in this monetary domain." Anyone who thought that monetary affairs are supposed to dominate an annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum...
Bergdorf lately has faced more than its share of setbacks. None of the four children of Chairman Andrew Goodman, 65, showed any interest in minding the family store. Edwin, 32, his only son, is the manager of an adventurous, listener-supported FM radio station in New York, and recently spent two nights in jail for failing to honor a subpoena for tapes that had been recorded during a jail uprising. Further, Bergdorf-Goodman steadfastly refused to open branches beyond its single Fifth Avenue store, losing customers to the suburban shopping-center outlets of Saks, Lord & Taylor and other competitors...