Word: technicolored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounded like a supermarket sweepstakes, the jackpot being $20,000 a year, $260 a month toward the rent and use of a credit card. But California's Republican Senator George Murphy did not have to fill in a lucky coupon, much less tell why he liked a detergent. Technicolor, Inc., his old employer, was content merely that he serve as its public relations consultant after he went to the Senate five years...
...arrangement his approval without even referring the matter to the members. Many men in Congress, after all, have outside sources of income, particularly from the practice of law. Still, few have such a direct connection, and probably no other legislator is the employee of a company whose chairman, like Technicolor's Patrick Frawley Jr., is a militant advocate of right-wing causes...
Died. Daniel Comstock, 86, M.l.T. physicist who helped Engineer Herbert Kalmus develop the Technicolor process for making color movies; in Concord, Mass. Though they began work in 1914, it took Comstock and Kalmus more than six years to develop their complex color process; even then, their first commercial film, a 1922 feature starring Anna May Wong, was at best blurry and unpromising. It was not until 1932, seven years after Comstock had left the partnership to develop a color process for still photography, that Technicolor came into its own as a commercial success...