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Died. Igor Stravinsky, 88, musical colossus of the 20th century (see Music...
Nobody expected miracles when Cesare Merzagora, an accomplished businessman and former leader of Italy's Senate, took over six months ago as president of Montecatini-Edison, the country's largest industrial firm. The Milan headquarters of the overdiversified chemical colossus was torn at the top by a management divided into two hostile camps-representatives of the government's substantial interest and champions of private investors (including the Agnelli and Pirelli families)-which held equal stakes. Directors had hoped that the appointment of Merzagora, 71, would keep both factions in balance and allay fears that the state...
Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) is the creator of a massive computer complex called Colossus, a faultless system that manages America's defense by doing everything from monitoring intelligence data to launching missiles. Colossus is a self-contained unit that, once sealed, can never be tampered with again, not even by Forbin himself. "Can it think creatively?" a journalist asks the good doctor. "No," is the firm reply. The fool...
...presidential party inaugurating the computer, Colossus flashes a brief, cryptic message: "THERE is ANOTHER SYSTEM." The Soviets have created a similar computer, called Guardian, and the two machines curtly inform their human creators that they yearn to be interconnected. The respective governments at first refuse, but missiles launched by the computers at a couple of strategic military targets are powerfully persuasive. From then on it's Colossus-Guardian all the way. The combined brains murder and create, dominate and control mankind, all for the greater good. "Freedom is an illusion," the machine announces in a raspy voice...
...William Schallert-all perform with precision, and Director Joseph Sargent keeps things moving along at a pace more rapid than a galloping pulse. His camera eye is restless and intricate; he seems to have learned a great deal from John Frankenheimer. The real star of the show, however, is Colossus, portrayed by a real computer complex at Universal City studios. If it only can avoid typecasting, it has a solid future in show business...