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Edwin Land, a tinkering scientist, founded the Polaroid Corp. in 1937 to make nonglare lenses. In 1948 he marketed a new camera that could produce pictures immediately. Competitors like Eastman Kodak thought it was a gimmick, but the product was an overwhelming success and opened up a whole new industry. When Land retired as head of the company in 1980, he had accumulated Polaroid stock worth more than $75 million...
...from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in recognition of their work in defense of civil liberties. Freund has been associated with the ACLU's Massachusetts chapter for more than a decade. Horner has conducted several studies related to civil liberties, including two on working women. Robert Palmer, a Polaroid employee who helped develop that company's affirmative action program, also received an award at the presentation banquet last Sunday. The awards, established after the death last August of ACLU founder Roger N. Baldwin '04, will be presented every year...
Purcell also showed how a rocket launches and what the gas argon would like like from the viewpoint of a molecule using polaroid transparencies and an overhead projector...
...Leading the way into one-stop photo processing is California-based Fromex One Hour Photo Systems. The new fast picture service is a threat to established film processors like Fotomat, which has 3,670 locations around the U.S. and offers two-day service, and to instant-camera makers like Polaroid as well. Founded just 20 months ago, Fromex now has 62 shops either open or under construction in the U.S., is launching stores in Australia and Mexico and eyeing a spot near the Imperial Palace in Peking. A new outlet in the franchise chain is to open this week...
...SCENE: a majestic, wide expanse of desert in the ime of Agamemnon. Nothing but lazy dunes and azure sky for miles. The camera slowly pans, and in the background we hear, 'chhht-zzzz.chhht-zzzzz." The familiar rumblings of a Polaroid SX-70. Hardly what one would expect...