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...federal antitrust suit, Eastman's Board Chairman Thomas Hargrave agreed in a consent decree to drop Eastman's pay-in-advance system, which includes the cost of processing in the price of a roll of color film.-Eastman will now sell a 20-exposure roll of 35-mm. Kodachrome for about $1.85, v. the present price of $3.25 including processing. Eastman will charge $1.50 extra to develop the roll, will license independent processors on a royalty basis to use its patents. Eastman also agreed to drop fair-trade pricing on its color films...
...Users of 35-mm. color film made by General Aniline & Film Corp.'s Ansco Division, Kodak's smaller rival, are not charged in advance for developing, may send their rolls back to the factory or to an independent finisher...
...More than 100 guided-missile launching sites for Nike antiaircraft rockets (which can shoot some 20 miles at supersonic speeds to destroy planes in mid-air). ¶ Several hundred emplaced 90-mm. and radar-aimed Skysweeper antiaircraft guns manned by 20,000 soldiers...
...past you have mocked Hollywood's attempts to expand into new dimensions and greater areas, let me assure you that Desiree is neat. Viewing the second feature seems like squinting at 8 mm. home movies. The tragedy of Desiree is that all Cinema-Scope's potentialities are ignored...
More mysterious than the red or white cells are the blood's tiny platelets (one twenty-five-thousandths in. in diameter, 200,000 to the cu. mm.) Nobody knows quite how they work, but they are essential to blood clotting. When they are absent, as in certain types of leukemia the patient may die from internal bleeding through microscopic holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins...