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...Eastman Kodak Co., several things are sacred. One is the memory of prodigious George Eastman (1854-1932), the Rochester tinkerer who founded the world's biggest photographic supplier, pioneered a paternalistic system of employee bonuses and pensions, and built dozens of schools, hospitals and dental clinics. Another is research. Kodak assiduously collects Ph.D.s (more than 500 are on its staff), and lets them wade fearlessly into the chartless seas of pure research. The third is profits: the company's have tripled in the past decade, and so have its dividends...
...Fuss. Last week Kodak paid public reverence to all three. In Manhattan, President William Scott Vaughn, 60, a mathematician and onetime Rhodes scholar, announced that "George Eastman's idea was to 'make a camera as easy to use as the pencil'-and picture taking now becomes that easy." What makes it so, in Vaughn's view, is the latest developments from Kodak's researchers: new Kodak still-film cartridges that pop in and out like blades in a razor, and four new models of "Instamatic" cameras (prices: $16 to $110) that use the film...
Hoping for sales of 1,000,000 of the cameras this year, Kodak is counting on the new line to broaden its appeal to what Vaughn calls "the mass market, people who don't want to be fussy in their picture taking." That market is expanding so rapidly that Vaughn also announced that Kodak's 1962 U.S. sales-two-thirds in photography and one-third in synthetic fibers, chemicals and defense work topped $1 billion for the first time, and profits rose 8% to $140 million after taxes...
...ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. will give visitors an armchair ride through a "narrated story of man's need to communicate" on its upper level; the lower level will have gadgets that visitors may work themselves. » THE EASTMAN KODAK PAVILION is an undulating, low structure topped by an eight-story tower mounted with five giant color photographs illuminated from within, looks like a TV set on an unmade bed. It will house a photographic-information center and two theaters...
...Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., $22,000; C. R. Bard Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., $20,000; Sterilon Corp., Buffalo, $15,886; Richards Manufacturing Co., Memphis, $14,000; Orthopedic Equipment Co., Bourbon, Ind., $13,000; Clay-Adams Inc., N.Y.C., $5,457; Warren E. Collins Inc., Boston, $4,855; Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, N.Y., $4,650; Acme Cotton Products Co., N.Y.C., $4,000; E. Leitz Inc., N.Y.C., $2,880; Birtcher Corp., Los Angeles, $970; J. H. Emerson Co., Cambridge, Mass., $450; Tecumseh Products Co., Tecumseh, Mich., $200; George P. Pilling & Co., Philadelphia...