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...role of trip's jester had fallen to Sisco. His bombastic humor-not to mention the shaggy old yellow golf sweater he invariably wore aloft-made him a natural for the part. His first big moment occurred as the plane was landing at Rabat, when a large Xerox copier suddenly broke loose and slid toward him. The machine stopped short of crashing into the horrified Assistant Secretary, but not before someone yelled: "Oh, my God, stop it! We can't have more than one Joe Sisco on this trip...
...Offered a better deal on an Olivetti duplicating machine, a branch of the South San Francisco public library replaced its SCM copier. Almost immediately the Olivetti began malfunctioning. Ink seeped onto the floor, paper tore, copies came out wet and smudged, coins with bits of chewing gum began sticking in the pay slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage...
...charged four big food companies (Kellogg, General Foods, General Mills and Quaker Oats) with monopolizing the breakfast cereal market, and tried to block a merger between two large drug firms (Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert). Last month the agency accused Xerox of illegally muscling competition from the $1.7 billion copier market...
...will be equipped with a Xerox 2400 copier and an A.B. Dick Expediter offset duplicator. The machines were supposed to be in operation December 15 but there were technicians still working on them part time yesterday...
Xerox, says the complaint, controls 60% of the overall copier market and fully 95% of the business in "plain paper" copiers, which reproduce on stock that does not need to be chemically treated. To redress such dominance, the FTC proposed a series of sweeping measures that might allow other firms to copy Xerox's ubiquitous machines almost as faithfully as the machines copy whatever is put inside them. Xerox, the FTC said, should sell off its controlling interests in British and Japanese copier companies. Also, the Government wants Xerox customers to have the option of buying all Xerox equipment...