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...taxes. "They are too high and they're going higher," protests I. Gifford Ladd, of Wellesley, Mass. Moreover, many feel that they get little service in return for the taxes they pay. "They don't do enough with the tax money; you feel that people in government pocket the money themselves," complains Louis McDowell of Edmonds, Wash...
...want what you are about to see to be involved in this monetary domain." Anyone who thought that monetary affairs are supposed to dominate an annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum pipe and pushed the shutter button five times in quick succession. About a second after each touch, a 3-in. by 3-in. blank plastic square shot out. Slowly and almost magically...
Land admitted that the camera's size - about 1¼in. thick and 4½in. by 7-in. in area when folded shut-is somewhat larger than he had originally planned, and thus raises "the question of just which pocket it will fit." (Answer: the breast pocket of a man's suit, snugly.) A major innovation in the still-unnamed camera is the single-lens-reflex viewing system that allows a picture taker to see precisely the same image that eventually appears on film. Except for conventional focusing, the entire process is controlled automatically by a tiny...
...chief rival in the amateur camera market, Eastman Kodak Co. Although Kodak is making "solid progress toward an in-camera processing system of our own," according to President Gerald B. Zornow, company officials declined to predict when it might be available. Kodak's entry into the pocket-photography race-the recently introduced Pocket Instamatic (TIME, March 27)-is much further along. Zornow reports that orders placed by camera dealers have "all but erased substantial inventories in new pocket products...
...Nino by Kurban Said (Pocket...