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...former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned off for the benefit of UNICEF, he insisted that money was not his motivation. Said the artist: "He is, after all, an outstanding...
...bursar's card merry-go-round began to revolve in September 1974, when the University unveiled its all-new bursar's card with the machine-detectable identification stripe. A brouhaha arose immediately over the use of Polaroid Corporation cards, which are used to make identification passes in South Africa. Gibson said at the time that Polaroid had been chosen because no other companies could make a card that would accept encoding...
After the Polaroid mini-controversy quieted down, the bursar's card fell out of the limelight, and no one publicly noted or mourned the passing of I.D. card encoding early in 1975. The key to this move was Widener Library's decision to drop a proposed automation of its circulation system...
...camera (then $180 before discounting) but below expectations. Users complained of dead batteries in fresh film packs and bad pictures-"washouts" from manual flash picture adjustments that were too complicated, poor color reproduction, even loss of such details as eyebrows that failed to appear in fully developed photos. Polaroid's earnings plunged from $66 million in 1970 to $28 million in 1974, and that year the company's lagging fortunes forced it to lay off 1,000 workers...
...Polaroid countered by coming out with two cheaper SX-70s, exterminating the bugs from the film packs, and going into the battery-making business itself to ensure quality-all at great cost. Last year sales rose 4% to a record $800 million, and profits probably about doubled. That performance, plus the Pronto's potential, should put Polaroid in a good position to do battle with Eastman Kodak, which is expected to enter the instant-picture market at about the time of the Pronto's national debut. Supersecretive Kodak is not saying just what kind of system it will...