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...Will that approach work? Some businessmen affirm that controls aimed at large companies and unions would effectively hit smaller ones as well. Says Maurice F. Krug, president of Technology Inc., a firm involved in photographic research: "Kodak is our biggest competitor, and they don't even know we exist. But we have to base our prices on theirs...
Alinsky now plans to start using his energies to organize the middle class rather than concentrating only on the poor minorities who, even united into a single movement, would still be a minority in this country. His tactic, one he discovered in his battle with the paternalistic Kodak Corporation in Rochester, will be a nationwide coalition of middle-class stockholders who will use their stock proxies collectively for corporate and (indirectly) government responsibility on political and social-issues. (It's similar to Ralph Nader's "Campaign GM," but on the scale of a mass-movement.) As a revolutionary tactic...
Like every educated traveler in those pre-Kodak years, Andersen drew assiduously while journeying through Portugal, Spain and Italy. But these diary drawings are trite; in their grasp of the conventions of realistic landscape, they are far below the sketched views and water-colors made by his nearest English equivalent, Edward Lear. But in his fantasy doodles, collages and paper cutouts, Andersen's vision flowered in a lyrical and fearsome way. In such work, he emerges as an accident of history-a previously unrecognized link between the 19th century Romantics and the 20th century Surrealists, sharing their common delight...
Britain's new economy is also threatened by an explosive rise in wages. Ford recently granted its workers an immediate 18% wage raise; Kodak granted 15% and merchant seamen have been offered 20%. Such increases, if not accompanied by commensurate gains in productivity, will soon dull the competitive edge that Britain achieved over other exporting nations when it devalued the pound...
Hornig is presently a vice president of the Eastman Kodak Company and a consultant-at-large on President Nixon's Science Advisory Committee. After receiving a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in Chemistry in 1963, he served as a group leader in the Mannattan Project to develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos...