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...kept aligned with the earth), Fendell's "shooting script" called for what was dubbed a "WAP," or wide-angle panorama. The camera slowly swept in a full circle around the horizon, enabling the scientists in Mission Control's science support room to take a series of overlapping Polaroid snapshots off their TV monitor, quickly study them for any oddity and then request Fendell to zoom in on it. Such a closeup was called a "NATO," or narrow-angle target of opportunity. While the scientists pored over their pictures, Fendell adroitly mixed his WAPs and NATOs with numerous shots...
...idea that Doc is just a jock, though. He is also the world's greatest surgeon, the greatest chemist, the greatest inventor. He had Polaroid, television and the shotgun mike at least a decade before the public did, and if you don't watch out, he'll "teleport" you atom by atom to his mysterious laboratory near the North Pole. Like James Bond, Doc is gadget-gaga. Dozens of tiny martial devices-gas bombs, sedative darts, ultraviolet flashlights-are concealed in his clothing. His cars are rolling fire bases that can "go like Barney Oldfield" and crash...
...large volume by Sony, then a struggling young Japanese company; stainless-steel razor blades were introduced by Wilkinson Sword, a British firm that few Americans had heard of; dry copiers were invented by an obscure company then called Haloid Xerox; the picture-in-a-minute camera was developed by Polaroid, a firm with no prior experience in photography. Similarly, the fast, low-cost oxygen steelmaking process was first tried in the U.S. by the relatively small McLouth Steel Corp. in the mid-1950s. A decade passed before U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel, which had enormous plants devoted...
...left M.I.T. and headed down Mem Drive. After a dissertation about the Polaroid-Land Company, Phil turned to current events. "Romember about two months ago when we had that women's lib march?" he asked. "Do you want to see the building where it all started...
...City Council meeting was packed with Riverside residents and their supporters. Representatives from six organizations (the North Cambridge Planning Team, the Cambridgeport Planning Team, the Socialist Workers Party, the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement. Cambridge Americans for Democratic Action, and the Black and 3rd World Women's Liberation Alliance of Cambridge) endorsed the Riverside group's proposal. Several individuals also voiced their support of the resolution, while no one expressed any opposition...