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...goose-necked creature sunning itself off the shore of Lake Champlain may look like an inflatable beach toy, but there are those who insist that Champ is a genuine sea monster. Amateur Photographer Sandra Mansi, for one. Four years ago, says Mansi, she snapped Champ with her Kodak Instamatic. To see if the photo had been doctored, it was sent to the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center for close scrutiny. B. Roy Frieden, 44, professor of optical sciences, pronounced it see-worthy. But skeptics are nettled by a number of things: 1) the possibility of a nearby sand...
...points last week, earning Harvard about $3.25 million. Coca-Cola gained a point, adding roughly $100,000 to Harvard's portfolio value. Kodak's gain of 2 7/8 offset the near-$700,000 loss caused by Xerox's 2 1/2-point decline. And AT&T's additional 1 3/4 points netted Harvard about $1.5 million...
...marketing, competitors to American Tobacco were mere puffs of smoke and United States Steel was an incredible amalgam of 148 companies that dwarfed runners-up. Washington's vigorous trustbusters lashed out against a variety of anticompetitive practices: Hollywood studios' control of movie theaters, Eastman Kodak's grip on film processing and United Shoe Machinery's knot on shoe manufacturing equipment...
That same motive led him to divest his stock in Eastman Kodak last summer, Willie says. He adds that it wasn't much stock--"10, 15, 20 shares"--but he sold it at a loss because he did not approve of Kodak's involvement with the government of South Africa. "I never told anybody about it publicly, because it wasn't that important," except as a symbol, he says...
Outdoor advertising in the People's Republic of China was once mainly brisk quotations from the works of Chairman Mao mixed with exhortations to work harder for the victory of Socialism. These days the billboard messages might be promotions for such American consumer products as Kodak film and Marlboro cigarettes...