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Racing at Saratoga is hardly lucrative. The unrepentantly old-fashioned track holds only 30,000 spectators (v. 80,000 at Long Island's Aqueduct) and earns enough money to cover only 90% of its purses. The New York Racing Association makes up the deficit. That annoys Albany politicians, who nowadays count on racing revenues to provide some $110 million (about 4%) of the budget, and would like an even bigger take. But a tradition-honoring state law guarantees Saratoga 24 days of racing each year, and horsemen insist that they will never give them up. "Not till the springs...
...came out 16 years ago, Dr. Edwin Land, 54, the scholarly and reticent president of Polaroid Corp., has wanted to make it smaller and handier. Last week the Cambridge, Mass., company announced that it had found a way. It introduced a new camera that is lightweight (2½ lbs. v. 5 lbs. for other Polaroids) and not too much larger than the little 35-mm. camera that festoons tourists the world over. Any other company president might have wanted to do some personal boasting about such an achievement, but not publicity-shunning Edwin Land. He went off to Venice...
...exporters are also being nudged out of "third markets" by Europeans and Japanese who benefit from lower rates. Though Veracruz is nearly three times as far from Germany as it is from New York, a German exporter can ship plasticizers to that port for $43 a ton, v. $53.61 for an exporter from New York. The difference in charges is particularly damaging to U.S. exports of cheap, bulky products for which freight makes up much of the final price...
...determined dieter can whip up a filling meal from Duffy-Mott Co.'s new shelf of 60 low-calorie products, including maple syrup (9 calories per teaspoon, v. 50-55 for the real thing), spaghetti sauces (8, v. 20) and chicken à la king (96 per serving, v. 305). Taste, depending on the product, ranges from good to dreadful. Mott thins the fat off its meats, uses only white chicken meat instead of richer dark meat, says all this adds 10% to 12% to its costs. The products retail at a 1% to 200% premium, and sales are swelling...
That some of the fees paid by Y.P.F. for drilling have been too high was tacitly conceded by Kerr McGee in last week's new contract, which calls for a fee of $16 per meter drilled, v. up to $26 in the old deals. But companies (such as Esso, Shell, Marathon) that got contracts to prospect point out that they have invested $60 million more than they got back...