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...vexing problem of antitrust law: how to define what "market" is involved. Raymond Carlson, 52, the Justice Department's chief lawyer for the case, contends that IBM controls a dominant 70% of the market for general-purpose computers and related equipment. IBM lawyers, led by Manhattan Attorney Thomas Barr, 44, and former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, reply that the true market in which the company competes is the much broader one for all kinds of electronic data-processing equipment, and that in any case a 70% share has not constituted a monopoly in previous cases...
...four outside directors of the 3M Co., including two former Cabinet members -onetime Treasury Secretary Joseph Barr and former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson -summoned the company's president to an urgent meeting. Barr put a startling question...
Within hours after making the figures public, Harold V. Gleason resigned as chairman and president, completing an almost total wipe-out of Franklin's top management. He took the new post of executive vice chairman, and was succeeded as chief executive by Joseph W. Barr, a former Democratic Congressman from Indiana arid Secretary of the Treasury during the last few weeks of Lyndon Johnson's Administration. Frightened depositors continued to withdraw their savings. The bank lost more than $100 million in deposits last week, bringing withdrawals to $930 million, or almost a third of the $3 billion deposits...
...trigger the body's defenses), Dr. Donald Morton of the University of California at Los Angeles has found signs of viral activity in human sarcomas, or cancers of connective tissue. Drs. Werner and Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus in cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat. Joseph Melnick of Baylor College of Medicine has determined that antibodies formed...
What seems to have impressed the judge most was the argument of IBM's chief counsel, Thomas D. Barr, who contended that a failure to reduce the huge award to Telex would permit it to "claim damages which are effected by its unlawful plan to appropriate IBM's business to itself." Conceding that he faced an "almost unmanageable" problem in trying to rejigger the judgment, Christensen first plaintively requested the disputants to appeal to a higher court. But by week's end he had apparently recovered some of his old self-confidence and announced that he would...