Word: oneupmanship
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...other parts. The machine works five times as swift ly as the older 6600 and sells for up to $15 million; Control Data already has five sales orders from U.S. Government agencies. Not surprisingly, the company did not want to run the risk that IBM might again try some oneupmanship. So Control Data last week accused IBM of monopolistic practices and asked the Government to enforce antitrust laws or, as a last resort, to dissolve the company. IBM accounts for almost three-quarters of the sales in one of the nation's fastest-growing major industries...
...their long-running game of oneupmanship, Greek Shipowners Aristotle Onassis, 61, and Stavros Niarchos, 58, have vied in everything from outfitting their yachts with art treasures to transforming their private islands into playgrounds for the beautiful people. But nothing has been more spirited than the rivalry between the onetime brothers-in-law-over Olympic Airways, which Onassis set up in 1957 after outbidding Niarchos for exclusive rights to run Greece's national airline...
They kill the time with intellectual vaudeville-puns, word games, syllogistic oneupmanship. As they do so, it becomes apparent that Stoppard owes fully as much to Samuel Beckett as he does to Shakespeare. R. and G. are transparent replicas of the two tramps who wait for Godot. But where Beckett's dialogue almost expires in pauses of resignation, Stoppard's lines pant with inner panic. Delivered with comic ardor at machine-gun speed, R. and G.'s interchanges combine mental verve with spiritual desolation. It is as if the quiz kids of Wittenberg U. found themselves desperate...
Though the program they endorsed was not particularly novel, it did make 60 specific recommendations in the fields of law enforcement, education, slum rebuilding and job opportunities that would make slum life more tolerable. While eschewing any hint of political oneupmanship, Rockefeller's bold call for state action undoubtedly helped to solidify his position as the leading spokesman for the G.O.P. on urban problems and one of the few national politicians who have any real understanding of ghetto conditions...
...Museum of History and Technology last week went an 8-ft.-high, stainless-steel piece of abstract sculpture designed by New York's José de Rivera, 62, and executed with the aid of fellow New York Abstractionist Roy Gussow, 48. In terms of institutional oneupmanship, the work gives the Smithsonian the distinction of placing the first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will be installed in midsummer, while the Hirschhorn Collection is planning to install a whole garden...