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...cards will be manufactured by the Ommicard Company, of Woodside, New York, which already handles identification cards for other schools, including the University of Massachusetts, the University of Connection and Rangers. The Omnicard process does not make use of the controversial Polaroid ID2 system...
Demonstrators were processed before entering the buses at the Supreme Count. Police slowly frisked and booked them, then got snapshots with Polaroid "Swingers" of each standing between his arresting officers...
...COMMITTEE on Rights and Responsibilities will soon announce its decision in the case of Allen S. Weinrub, a graduate student in Physics who has been accused of conspiring to prevent a speech by Edwin H. Land, president of the Polaroid Corporation, at Harvard last month. Given the facts of the case, the CRR's task is clear: a prompt acquittal of Weinrub, coupled with an unequivocal refutation of the very nature of the charge...
Edwin Land's speech was not obstructed, nor was it threatened; it was cancelled by a group of Physics professors who wished to spare Land a verbal confrontation on Polaroid in South Africa. About 60 protesters had gathered at an impromptu meeting which Weinrub chaired, and they had voted to approach Land before his scheduled talk on colorvision. At an earlier meeting of scientists in New York, Land had been publicly questioned for the first time on his company's business activity in South Africa, and he had been badly upset by the experience. The professors-several of them...
...doubtless some people who find this dichotomy appealing, but to impose it as a code of conduct is an even more concerted attack on the idea of free exchange than are all the charges of conspiracy. There are many who believe that Land's theories of colorvision and Polaroid's activity in the service of a racist regime are not separable but are rather fused as a single reality. And to deny anyone the right to perceive that relationship would be to make a travesty of intellectual freedom...