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...David v. Goliath legal struggle could not have been more aptly cast if its participants had been selected by, well, a computer. There, as defendant, was the International Business Machines Corp., the $9.5-billion-a-year giant of the computer industry, facing charges that it had illegally monopolized a fast-growing segment of its business. IBM's accuser was Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based manufacturer of "peripheral" components used with computers, which last year printed out a net loss of $13 million and has earned a total of only $7,000,000 in the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTITRUST: Print-Out Against IBM | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...with awe; when the Framers were setting things up, they viewed him with apprehension." Still, he says, "impeachment of the President should be a last resort." Indeed some early advice on the subject endures. "The power of impeachment," said the English Solicitor General in 1691, "ought to be, like Goliath's sword, kept in the temple, and not used but on great occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Impeachment | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

David met Goliath, and this time the big boy took home all the marbles, as a Princeton powerhouse shut out the Radcliffe tennis squad on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top-Ranked Princeton Women's Tennis Team Shuts Out Disorganized 'Cliffe Racquetwomen | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...Lidt-dejude has a 2-2 record. Holding a brown belt in judo and formerly a high school football lineman, the MIT goliath won both his matches by pins...

Author: By Richard H.p.sia, | Title: Matmen Look for Easy Victory In MIT, Maine Battle Tonight | 1/16/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard varsity team, composed of an army of freshmen grapplers, begins a long, arduous season tomorrow against an emerging East Coast goliath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Crimson Wrestlers Tackle BU; Varsity Squad Expects Rough Season | 11/30/1972 | See Source »

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