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That year Polaroid brought out the revolutionary SX-70, the coat-pocket-size folding fully automatic single-lens reflex camera; it popped out film that developed sharp color prints while one looked at them. After some initial start-up problems with the SX-70, the mass-market One-Step and Pronto models were smash successes. In 1978 the company was manufacturing 30,000 OneSteps a day. Even after Eastman Kodak finally entered the instant-photo field in 1976, Polaroid roared forward, always one inspirational idea ahead of the competition...
...half-gallon jug of vino now comes in a 1.5-liter size, while the half-gallon of hard stuff has become a 1.75-liter container. Judging the better buy between sizes is enough to drive an Einstein to drink. A handy tool to avert befuddlement is "The Liquor & Wine Pocket Saver," a small slide rule that compares prices in both standard and metric sizes. Example: if the old quart of one whisky brand went for $15.14, the 1.75-liter bottle should cost $27.99, the 4-liter model $63.95. At many liquor stores, Pocket $aver is on the house, plus...
...election nights, Pierre Trudeau usually has an apt quote in his pocket from the popular homily Desiderata ("Go placidly among the noise and haste"). But for his moment of triumph last week he borrowed from Robert Frost. As the cheers welled around him, the once and future Prune Minister quoted from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep...
...Congress, he has forcefully attacked labor unions and bureaucrats while opposing aid to New York City. So staunch a champion of fiscal responsibility is Kelly that he refused in 1976 to pocket a congressional pay raise and donated the more than $1,000 to churches and the U.S. Treasury. He and his fourth wife, Judy, 28, his former secretary, whom he married in 1978, live relatively frugally, but Kelly managed to spend about $12,000 more for his office account last year than the $290,000 allowed him; he had to get a bank loan to pay back the amount...
Juan, stopping to pocket an eight ball in a game of billar and then scoring a quick victory in a game of dominoes...