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Nobody has watched Polaroid's growth with keener interest than the chiefs of Kodak, the Rochester giant built on George Eastman's first "little black box" in 1888. Kodak has undoubtedly lost ground to Polaroid but is still a mammoth company which had sales last year of $3 billion from photo products, synthetic fibers (Kodel) and chemicals...
...SPRING'S NADIR came at the May 22 march on the Pentagon. Called by an emergency coalition of major national antiwar groups immediately after the mines were sown, the action was seen as an attempt to duplicate the now-legendary 1967 march on the mammoth military headquarters. Even in the days immediately preceding the action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables went awry and its leadership quarreled divisively. After sparring...
Side Trips. Accompanied by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State William Rogers, a staff of 36 and a mammoth press corps of 260, the President and his First Lady last Saturday flew off to Salzburg, Austria, for two days of rest and sightseeing. On Monday morning, Air Force One was to take off from Salzburg for the 3-hr. 40-min. flight to Moscow. Nixon will spend nine days in Russia, including two days of side trips to Leningrad and Kiev. After that he will fly to Iran for one day and to Poland for another before returning on June...
...plan to prevent Marxist Salvador Allende from taking office as President of Chile by causing "economic collapse" in that country. And most recently, Democratic politicos have been decrying the fact that ITT has paid only relatively modest current federal and Canadian taxes -less than 25%-on its mammoth earnings...
...course it's just possible that William Lear's steam-turbine car may solve the problem or that people will settle for small, light electric putt-putts before they choke on their own exhaust, but not likely. In Los Angeles there is just no replacement for that mammoth steel hunk, that roaring brute car that shrinks the land, expands your reach with churning heady acceleration, burst of speed, smell of rubber, and sends you floating dangerously at dizzy speeds, free and loose and careless, across the land. ·: Timothy Tyler