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...time was probably gained back by moments of sheer inspiration, scientific and otherwise. While searching for a small but powerful motor to run the new camera, a Polaroid engineer had the unusual insight one afternoon that the motors used to run his son's toy race cars might work. The next day Polaroid researchers invaded a Boston hobby shop and eventually modeled the SX-70 motor on an electric-train engine that they spotted there. While mulling over the complaint of a Polaroid owner, who had phoned all the way from Africa to protest that he could not find...
Saul Bellow, D. Litt., author. Henry Ford II, LL.D., chairman, Ford Motor Co. In an age when many industrialists look for the riskless course and too many business spokesmen are puppets of their public relations staff, you have remained a thoroughly authentic outspoken man. Piet Hein, L.H.D., Danish scientist and philosopher who invented the Soma Cube, and the "grook...
...wouldn't recommend a small independent hotel unless we had tried it ourselves. They don't turn away black travelers, but often they might give them a small room with no view." The travel agents have found that blacks get good rooms at the hotels and motor inns operated by the major chains, such as the Hiltons and Holiday Inns...
...different mechanisms that turn the hour and minute hands. Bulova uses the electronic tuning fork developed in its Accutron watch, a battery-powered model that is just a shade less accurate than the Accuquartz; Timex employs a conventional balance wheel; Benrus, the Swiss and the Japanese use a "stepdown" motor. Linking these mechanisms to the quartz crystal is an integrated electronic-circuit chip, and U.S. electronic firms are enthusiastically moving to supply the chips to the quartz watch market. Japanese, Swiss and American watchmakers are buying theirs from such firms as Motorola and Texas Instruments...
...typical 100-room motor inn in southern Illinois can cost up to $1,100,000, of which the franchisee group puts up $350,000 or less; on this it can expect an after-tax return of just over $50,000-a handsome 15% or more on its investment. For such a motel, Holiday Inns charges an initial fee of $15,000, plus royalties and fees of 6% on the annual gross. In return, the franchisee gets the marketing advantage of a household name, national advertising and a steady flow of customers provided by the chain-wide referral system. The massive...