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That is what Ford set out to do, in one of the biggest, costliest and most risk-filled gambles in company history. On Sept. 27, Ford will launch a Taurus completely redesigned and restyled at a cost of $2.8 billion, almost a bargain compared with Ford's $5 billion investment in its compact-size "world car," including the U.S. versions Contour and Mystique, introduced this year...
Adding to SNL's challenge this fall is the presence, for the first time, of serious network competition. On Oct. 14th, Fox will launch Mad-TV, a sketch-comedy show based on Mad magazine. The one-hour program, which will air at 11 p.m. Eastern time (half an hour earlier than SNL) looks unpromising--crass, pointless skits, like one in which homeless people forage for breakfast food in Dumpsters, seem to be favored here too--but if it fails, Fox already has a potential backup in the works: a sketch-comedy hour being developed by Roseanne...
...announced that it would include the new Microsoft operating system with some of its PCs. "It took IBM a while, but it was almost inevitable that they would eventually offer Windows 95, too,"TIME's David Jacksonreports from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where IBM executives attended a launch party for the software. "Any personal computer maker not offering this product is going to have a tough time, at least in the near term...
...Justice Department announced it will take no antitrust action against Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 software before its Aug. 24 launch. The news came hours after the company set prices and imposed an initial 500,000-member ceiling for the controversial new online network it will package with Windows...
...emptive strike against the Soviets. In 1949 he wanted to send an armada of U.S. planes, carrying the entire Los Alamos stockpile--numbering more than 100 atom bombs--to destroy 70 Soviet cities. It was out of fear that a hot-headed general like LeMay might be able to launch a nuclear attack on his own that the Kennedy Administration later instituted a complex chain of commands governing the use of nuclear weapons...