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Coercing, Exploiting. In a civil antitrust suit filed at the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Control Data said that IBM's "manipulations" had caused it "substantial and irreparable" losses and demanded treble damages. The complaint charges IBM with 37 violations of the Sherman Act, accuses the company of "coercing," "interfering," "intimidating" and "exploiting." Among other things, Control Data asserts that IBM sold or leased some models at a loss to hinder competition, that it interfered in its customers' negotiations with competitors, and that it was guilty of "misrepresenting the status and performance" of its own prematurely announced...
Control Data filed suit partly because it became convinced that the Justice Department would not act against IBM. As expected, IBM vowed to "vigorously defend" itself against the charges brought by what it called its "spectacularly successful competitor." It said that the industry, far from being noncompetitive, includes some of the country's most powerful companies.* Then too, the history of Control Data, which was started by Norris only eleven years ago, demonstrates that IBM competitors can succeed. In about a decade, IBM noted, Control Data's assets have grown from less than...
Prayers for Forgiveness. More or less the same scene was repeated by 31 other industrialists, bankers and assorted businessmen, including some of the most important in Japan. They agreed to act the roles of wartime admirals and diplomats in the movie, to be released worldwide by 20th Century-Fox about a year from now. But why put businessmen in those parts? For a very practical reason, says Director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Seven Samurai), who is handling the Japanese portion of the co-production with U.S. moviemakers: there were few if any professional actors available who looked and acted like...
Quinn is surprisingly effective at making Conchis a cross between Picasso and a monkey, as he was in the novel. In a part that calls for relentless coyness, Candice Bergen cannot be said to act, but her beauty is so compelling that the male audience, like Orpheus, can hardly be blamed for forsaking the future for a backward glance...
...little evidence that the Krupps and people like them ever really considered the possibility of personal guilt. In the best 19th century patriotic tradition, the Krupps-like weapons makers all over Europe-always worked with their own government and backed the Fatherland against the world. When Hitler's acts began to depart from even the tooth and claw morality accepted in earlier times, extending to calculated genocide, they made no moral distinction, possibly, in part, out of sheer inertia. Unlike most Germans, moreover, Alfried was perhaps powerful enough to have restrained the Führer. He did nothing. Long...