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William C. Norris was once fond of claiming that Control Data Corp., the company that he formed nearly 15 years ago, was destined to play Ford in the computer industry to IBM's General Motors. And indeed he put together with astonishing speed a company that by 1968 was making more money selling and leasing computers than anyone except IBM. But now the Minneapolis-based CDC looks more like a computer Edsel. Its share of the global market has dwindled to 2.7%, from 4.2% four years ago, and in the past two years it has lost more than...
...case, the ad seemed to be achieving its stated goal. As of last week, according to the local Association of Commerce, 50 companies had requested more information on relocating in Fond du Lac, and six were seriously negotiating...
...EVERYONE DIGS FOND DU LAC, said the headline in a half-page ad in the Milwaukee Sentinel, BUT YOU JUST MIGHT. The ones who don't dig it were symbolized in a picture of three shaggy hippies glaring out at the reader...
...part of a $45,000 campaign to attract new industry to the Fond du Lac area, about 65 miles north of Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...
...what happens in Why A Duck? The illustrations are the still life of the party. But as the brothers deliver their lines, now entombed in comic-strip balloons, both timing and inflection-the soul of cinematic wit-vanish. Those unacquainted with the films cannot hope to comprehend the fond archaeology of Why A Duck? No, this is a trigger for memories, a bright souvenir for the ages-the ages well above 30. Plus those youthful Marxists who flyspeck television listings for sporadic, interrupted revivals. Other coffee tables need not apply...