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Hall has had more success with his flash card security system at Eliot House, and his Delta 2000 program...
...company's problems stemmed from the SX-70. From the moment it was marketed nationally in 1973, sales were respectable for so high-priced a camera (then $180 before discounting) but below expectations. Users complained of dead batteries in fresh film packs and bad pictures-"washouts" from manual flash picture adjustments that were too complicated, poor color reproduction, even loss of such details as eyebrows that failed to appear in fully developed photos. Polaroid's earnings plunged from $66 million in 1970 to $28 million in 1974, and that year the company's lagging fortunes forced...
...some performers, the day might have ended there. Not for Dorothy. After realizing the boos were not aimed at her, she collected herself and skated back out on the ice, head and shoulders set in grim determination. Her music started and suddenly came the smile like a flash of sunlight. Surely, evenly, she started to skate, and soon was sweeping through her routine as if gravity did not exist. The crowd was caught up in the moment, and in four minutes Dorothy turned the entire, week-long championship into her show...
After 35 years of tracking down big stories for the Flash, Girl Reporter Brenda Starr has finally tracked down her man. The funny-papers heroine, still a red-haired beauty of 23, last week exchanged wedding vows with dashing, eye-patched Basil St. John on the cartoon page of 150 newspapers. To celebrate, Starr Creator Dale Messick, 69, joined with some 125 well wishers for a mock reception in Washington...
...computers that keep track of the aircraft also search for planes within two minutes' flying time of a hazardous situation. When they find one, they flash a warning to the air-traffic controller, who can then give one or both planes directions to avoid an accident. C.A. has already gone into operation at the Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City and Memphis air-route traffic control centers. FAA officials are now planning to speed up the installation schedule at other control centers...