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...years, Polaroid Corp. staffers wondered when Founder Edwin Land, 65, would start giving up some of the titles that he had held for 38 years: chairman, president, director of research. In a surprise move, the inventor-autocrat last week handed one of his jobs, the presidency, to William McCune Jr., 59, Polaroid's executive vice president and, since the founding of the company in 1937, its senior engineer. The surprise was not merely that Land finally anointed a possible successor, but also that McCune's new job did not go to General Manager Thomas Wyman, 45. A sales...
Consumers were hardly mollified by the tax rebate. Said Jean Patton, a management consultant for Polaroid Corp.: "It seems the President is just taking out of one pocket and putting it in the other." Judy Elliott, a restaurant owner in Hartford, agreed: "There are 10,000 people around here who have had their heat cut off because they can't pay. What good is a tax cut when they can't heat their homes...
...Polaroid's complicity in this system cannot be avoided, and officials of the company certainly are not going to be candid about involvement in an internationally despised system when a large contract is at stake, especially when faced with the recent financial troubles that have confronted Polaroid. However, it is important to note Mr. Palmer's pleasure and pride with the fact that its major distributor "recently tripled the salaries of its 124 black employees." While that is merely a molecule in a bucket, it is also crucial to realize that, because of the racist policies of the government...
PRWM supports the demands of freedom from repression and for self-determination for the African majority. The winds of change cannot pass by South Africa. We urge your support of the Polaroid boycott, and urge CHUL to reconsider its recent decision in the name of humanity and freedom. Laurie M. Lotspeich '77 David W. Price '77 PRWM/PANIC [People Against National Identity Cards...
Editor's Note: The CHUL did not decide to use the Polaroid system for freshman I.D. cards. Dean Whitlock made the decision in favor of Polaroid, and CHUL was not consulted until after that decision was finalized...