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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Land himself remained elusive for weeks, finally giving Taubman less than a day's notice for an interview. The father of instant photography allowed 21 hrs. of conversation-brief by the standard of most interviews with TIME cover subjects, but longer than he had ever spent with a reporter before. Associate Editor William Doerner, who wrote the cover story, had seen Land in his role as business executive addressing stockholders. "Through this interview," says Doerner, "you see a different Land, a lover of photography as art rather than commerce. I take cameras pretty seriously as a hobby...
...dead was anathema to laymen for many centuries. Emperors and popes once forbade the practice, forcing physicians to utilize the services of body snatchers who, as late as the 19th century, obtained cadavers in midnight graveyard forays. One British ghoul, William Burke, was hanged in 1829 for creating instant specimens out of innocent wayfarers. As late as the 1960s, medical schools relied upon unclaimed bodies and found even these in short supply...
...inflationary, a tax increase seems likely. TIME'S Board members foresee a tax raise between mid-1973 and mid-1974, but most of them believe that at present the Government should not restrain spending but expand it. Said Walter Heller: "If there were such a thing as instant fiscal policy, I would still put more stimulus in the economy today-and more restriction later. Given any kind of responsible fiscal policy, there is a tax increase in our future...
Parker will also have a portable closed-circuit video tape system available for a more visual appraisal of an oarsman's style. In all, one gets the impression that with ergometers, instant replay and Parker's practiced eye, the eventual American entries should be as close to an impartial, representative group as one could wish...
...SPITE OF the televised hoo-ra-rah of Nixon's trip to China last February, and all the instant books on "The New China" which have proliferated in the aftermath, the need for reporting in-depth persists. Most of the small number of reporters given the chance to enter the country with the Presidential mission were caught by the suddenness of the Chinese overtures of friendliness, went on little notice, and had little notion of the country's history and customs. Once there, they discovered that some expertise was needed in order to treat the big stories; nationalism, the people...