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...Pratt & Whitney jet-engine-parts plant, and old New Haven, Conn., where G & O Manufacturing Co. is building a new $5 million automotive radiator factory. The most glittering showcase is the string of high-technology companies ringing Boston on the Route 128 beltway led by giants like Polaroid, Raytheon and Itek. Massachusetts' 300 hi-tech firms now employ 150,000 workers...
...Voice of Democracy." But guess who's coming to 8.4 million U.S. homes for breakfast, electronically speaking, for the next three weeks while Today show Hostess Jane Pauley goes off to marry and honeymoon with Cartoonist Garry Trudeau? Hartley, best known for her low-key and highly successful Polaroid camera commercials with James Garner, will handle interviews and other chores as Pauley's standin. "I'm using brain cells I haven't used since college," confesses she. Of more concern to the suburban Los Angeles mother of two is temporary life in a Manhattan hotel...
...area of business is watching the economic numbers more closely than advertising. Consumers' reluctance to buy is causing nervous fidgeting in a field that has prospered by selling Americans on the convenience of Polaroid cameras, the refreshment of Cokes or the glamour of Cadillacs. Traditionally, advertising budgets are among the first victims of a recession, as companies attempt to cut costs by slowing their promotions. Total advertising expenditures are expected to rise to more than $55 billion this year, which represents a modest 2% gain over 1979. But agencies fear the impact of the economic downturn. Stuart Upson, chairman...
...little proof, and in part because there is so much else for the city to pride itself on. Cambridge too is celebrating its 350th, a year-long bash commemorating the city that gave birth not only to endless generations of Harvard scholars but also the Porterhouse steak, the Polaroid Land camera, and the proportional representation election. "Boston is the biggest suburb of Cambridge," former mayor Edward Crane '35 was fond of declaring; indeed, few cities of 100,000 have had an impact so large on the nation...
Certainly the class of 1930 shows as many successes as any other to come out of Harvard: numerous lawyers and investment counselors, writers and editors, doctors, the author of "Around the World in Eighty Days," and the president of the Polaroid Corporation...