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Land admitted that the camera's size - about 1¼in. thick and 4½in. by 7-in. in area when folded shut-is somewhat larger than he had originally planned, and thus raises "the question of just which pocket it will fit." (Answer: the breast pocket of a man's suit, snugly.) A major innovation in the still-unnamed camera is the single-lens-reflex viewing system that allows a picture taker to see precisely the same image that eventually appears on film. Except for conventional focusing, the entire process is controlled automatically by a tiny...
...insight into "Yovy" and his relationship to me during the 1970 football season: Dartmouth Program Oct. 24, 1970 "It didn't seem inappropriate at his first press conference at a Boston hotel. Down at the end of a table was a long-hair, a beatnik with bushy hair and thick glasses--a stereotype. Yovicsin merely glanced...
Maine's dilemma is to gain the benefits of economic development without ruining its glorious natural environment. That the poverty-stricken state will grow is certain: its thick stands of timber, its scenic land and deep harbors ensure more manufacturing, trade and tourism. As in most states, development has been disorderly, resulting in an ominous trend toward the most irreversible sort of pollution-badly used land. To stop that trend, A Maine Manifest proposes several steps, including...
...record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald bought Ethyl Corp., the world's largest producer of lead antiknock compounds for gasoline. Now the Government has set auto pollution standards...
Lord Rothermere, his brother, a thick-necked caricature of Northcliffe, got the Daily Mail but not the Times. He took a fancy to Hitler and died of cirrhosis as the Luftwaffe's bombs fell on London. The family's impact has faded, but not Northcliffe's newspaper style -bright, brief, opinionated, superficial -which remains imprinted on Fleet Street. As Northcliffe decreed, once and for all: "Everything counts, nothing matters...