Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than initiated American involvement, he continued to prosecute it for five long and bloody years; while Kissinger talked of peace, the war was widened to Cambodia and Laos. The heaviest and most destructive bombing of the war occurred while Kissinger talked peace. Some of the largest and most destructive land operations involving the heaviest casualties to civilians occurred after 1968, while Kissinger talked peace. In violation of international law and treaties to which the U.S. is a party, as well as any principles of humanism, Kissinger pursued a scorched earth policy, making large areas of Vietnam unsuitable for life...
...television set long enough to watch, then putting everything away again. When compared with sales in the giant amateur-still-photography market, home movie sales are small change; annual camera sales have declined from about 1 million units in 19-72 to around 650,000 last year. But Land believes latent demand is there and that Polavision can draw it out, despite a probable total system price of $400 to $700, according to Wall Street guesses. (Polaroid has not yet announced a price.) Says Land: "We feel this is a totally new field, more like television...
...dropped into the viewer like a slice of bread into a toaster. In 90 seconds, the film is processed as it is rewound inside the cassette before being projected on the screen in full color. The cassette then pops up for the viewer "to replace in the library," as Land puts...
...held the system in the labs was the film's slow reaction to light. Polaroid's scientists, however, found a way to speed it up to an acceptable ASA (American Standards Association) rating of 40, adequate for moviemaking outdoors by daylight or indoors with a small floodlight. Land wants to market Polavision with sound, and the film shown at last week's meeting had an unused magnetic sound track, but Land is not satisfied with the quality...
...rest of the world, the finds on dry land are likely to be small and scattered. In the U.S., where more than 2.25 million wells have been sunk in the past 75 years, only a handful of encouraging regions remain. Among the most tantalizing: the Rocky Mountain foothills; Wyoming, where rock outcroppings may indicate trapped petroleum reserves; and parts of Mississippi and Alabama...