Word: debs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the struggle is a fight over information-the Government asking for vast amounts, the company often resisting. "It can be a huge job," says Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General and now the IBM vice president in charge of the legal defense. "Sometimes plaintiffs ask for something we don't have-we'd have to ask every salesman in every branch office-because it's not the sort of information that the company needs to run itself. Or sometimes they ask for a file from the early '60s, and those files are crated...
...people Gene encounters on that trip add nothing. This undistinguished group includes Barnes, a writer of insipid mysteries with titles like Death of a Deb; Flash, sports entrepreneur and president of the North American Curling League, Stella the Divorcee, an oversexed blob usually clad in "Omar the Tentmaker" originals who does things Erica Jong is afraid to even dream about; and Lizzie, a confirmed epicurean who thinks truck stops are the "best places...
...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...
Abetted by Candice Bergen, as a thrill-seeking but good-natured deb, they determine to crack the uncrackable safe. At this point, what looked like just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration...
...middle of five daughters, Patty Hearst is stunningly attractive. She was the first of the Hearst girls to decide against going through the deb rituals of San Francisco society, and she recently delivered a blunt critique of the daily Examiner to its editor, who also happens to be her father. Complaining that the paper neglected issues that interest young readers, she said: "Nobody under 80 reads the Examiner any more...