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...those numbers halved. The company says that major retail customers no longer needed to buy new minilabs, so Fujifilm is now promoting "in-store ordering terminals" to new customers as part of its "print at retail" push. Kodak, too, is relying heavily on the printing business. Jaime Cohen Szulc, general manager of Kodak's camera business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, points out that people print only about 28% of their digital photos, a long way from their habits with film, when folks often printed two copies of every shot. Kodak is selling products that allow printing...
DIED. TAD SZULC, 74, foreign correspondent extraordinaire for the New York Times; of cancer; in Washington. Szulc broke the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and later wrote a biography of Fidel Castro. Born in Poland, Szulc came to the U.S. in 1947. He spoke six languages and reported from Asia, Latin America and Europe...
Biographer Tad Szulc calls Cuban President Fidel Castro a "master at the game of letting his enemies trap themselves." And the aging dictator believes he has his archenemies, Miami's Cuban exiles, right where he wants them in the custody battle over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Ever since Elian was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving and handed to relatives in Miami--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--the exiles have dared Castro to let the dad, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, come to Miami to get the boy himself. Their bet was that Castro...
...also involved in a far more worldly enterprise. Papal biographer Tad Szulc has said that the Pope's 91st international trip had three aims: personal spiritual enrichment; reconciliation among all three Abrahamaic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam); and peacemaking, the duty of anyone who would call himself the vicar of Christ...
When Veteran Photographer Eddie Adams, 50, was offered a chance to accompany Parade Magazine Reporter Tad Szulc, 57, to Cuba for an exclusive interview with President Fidel Castro, 57, he eagerly accepted. But "el jefe máximo" kept the pair waiting in their hotel for two weeks, and they finally flew back to New York, though not before Adams had angrily given every Cuban official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing...