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Brazil has also welcomed foreign investment, especially from the U.S., which has sent $1.6 billion in Government financial aid to support the regime. Of the $4 billion in direct private investment in Brazil, almost half has been supplied by U.S. firms, including General Electric, Kodak, GTE Sylvania and IBM (Brazil's biggest exporter). As the country's industrial base expands, Brazilians are acquiring a new sense of pre-eminence in Latin America that is making some of their neighbors nervous. Brazil is not yet strong enough to pursue a really imperialistic course, and the generals still rely...
...Quakers, still equipped with nine lettermen and two of the best forwards in the country, have yet to play an Ivy squad. But a crushing victory over Southern California in the opening round of the Kodak Classic, and a narrow one at the expense of St. Bonaventure in the finals indicates that Penn is still the team to beat in the League...
...that his grandfather had helped start in 1906. Shortly before he became president, the Government began drastically cutting back on its large wartime orders from Haloid, and Wilson started a search for new products. His chief of research. Dr. John Dessauer, showed him a 25-line abstract in a Kodak company journal describing a dry copying process that had been invented by Physicist Chester F. Carlson in the 1930s but never commercially developed. Wilson studied Carlson's equipment-which had been unsuccessfully offered to Kodak, A.B. Dick and IBM-then decided to buy the rights...
During the Depression, when Eudora Welty worked as a publicity agent for the WPA in the state of Mississippi just after she had gotten out of Mississippi State College, she took her kodak along. She developed her photographs in the kitchen at night. And now she has chosen one hundred of them for her album, black and white photographs with five pages of introduction...
...caught with tender and ironic precision the way that people actually stand when they are not observed-along with the scoured blue of the Atlantic sky and the distant, promenading couples. It is like an amateur snapshot. Vuillard was, in fact, one of the first artists to use a Kodak systematically. It was his habit to set up his camera and focus it while talking to friends, and startle them with a cry of "One moment, please!" and a click. Much of the angling and perspective in Vuillard's rooms seems to correspond to the distortions...