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...Wall Street's alltime favorite glamour issues, Polaroid Corp. stock has been looking remarkably bedraggled lately. In May 1972 the price hit 149½, as optimism spread about the supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing color camera that Chairman Edwin H. Land had dramatically demonstrated to shareholders a month earlier at the annual meeting. The stock then rode a roller coaster (see chart) as great expectations about the camera alternated with apprehension about sales and technical difficulties. But in the past year or so, the lows have been getting steadily lower. Two weeks ago, negative brokerage-house reports knocked almost...
...Since stores buy the camera for $120 (less an $8 rebate for each one they sell), the SX-70 generates a slim retail profit at best. Many stores are selling it to draw customers and build a market for film sales, on which both the stores and Polaroid expect to make their real profits...
...that of Mount Williamson, with its tumbled granitic boulders and slanting cathedral illumination in the sky-as if God had accepted Adams as his art director-have been instrumental in fixing the idea of "wilderness" for two generations of Americans. Probably half the millions of frames of TriX and Polaroid that tourists expose in Yosemite each season are homages, conscious or not, to Adams-sentiment imitating art in the presence of nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams has imposed...
...Polaroid, Tech Square, and Draper Laboratories probably never would have come to Cambridge if it weren't for the presence of Harvard and MIT," Duehay said. Non-university-related businesses also have an incentive to locate in Cambridge because of the ease with which managerial personnel can be attracted to live in a university community...
...Polaroid color photograph might have been the cover of a paperback thriller-or a recruiting poster for the revolutionary left. But the comely, wholesome-looking girl holding a submachine gun was Patricia Hearst, and an accompanying tape recording of her voice carried a bizarre message: Patty, 20, had decided to forsake her millionaire parents and join the fanatics who kidnaped her two months...