Word: polaroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polaroid Objects...
...policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that the print was reflected and magnified, and could be photographed with a Polaroid camera...
...Your Essay was much needed, but to attempt a discussion of contemporary philosophy without mentioning Ayn Rand and objectivism is like discussing instant photography without mentioning Land and Polaroid...
...spread to Wall Street. Shares in a formerly obscure company named National Video Corp. jumped from 97⅛ to 111½ in a single day after National announced it was doubling production of color TV tubes to 1,000,000 a year. Last week both Texas Instruments and Polaroid hit new highs on news that they were working together to produce a new, less expensive color tube-even though it may be years before the tube can be marketed. Even TV repairmen are acting bullish again. Reason: color sets are more complicated to keep in order than black and white...
...fore ground sounded strangely like politicians fighting for votes. For six weeks, candidates had been crisscrossing the nation, walking as far as 30 miles to appear under banyan trees at isolated village rallies. Even President Julius Nyerere felt constrained to stump through the countryside with his new Polaroid camera, awing prospective voters by handing out pictures he had just taken of them...