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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other companies in the field have long been tempted to challenge IBM in the courts, but they have lacked the resources. They also feared that IBM-which controls many of the industry's patents, and licenses its competitors to use them-might not take too kindly to any outfit that brought it to court. IBM's gentlemanly salesmen, some of whom make $40,000 a year or more, can indeed be rugged competitors. Even so, the company's top management is known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year...
...result is an often flawed, some times naive but largely fascinating chronicle whose inflated pretensions as a work of real scholarship are punctured by swarms of errors. As a work of history, the book is marred, too, by an overwrought style and an unbecomingly snide use of irony. Manchester is not fond of the Germans, and he caricatures them either as superefficient and slavishly obedient or as a folk barely removed from dwarfs and dragons, blood feuds and bags of tainted gold...
...drab underlings. After Fritz's death in 1902, the succession fell to his daughter, Bertha, and led to the long reign of a king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest son. He ran the Konzern until 1943, outdoing the Krupps in ruthless efficiency. Gustav's only diversion seems to have been reading timetables for typographical errors. He allocated precisely 60 minutes...
...from it? In bringing the question of German culpability up to date, Manchester neglects to mention that most West Germans were born after 1933. Though they bear no guilt for the past, they show grave concern over the profound moral issues raised by the manufacture of weapons and their use in the world. Generally, they have concluded that where moral doubt exists, it is better to abstain from profit. Young Germans are among the world's least militaristic people - perhaps because they have been profoundly influenced by the example of the past. So too, in part, have the postwar...
Levity and Levitation. Not for long. Yippie goings-on during the Democratic Convention in Chicago brought the movement prominence far beyond its numbers ("From four to 200,000, depending on the weather," according to Hoffman); the clubs of Dick Daley's cops, used indiscriminately on yippies, newsmen and bystanders, even won it some measure of sympathy. Essentially, the movement remains devoted to what Hoffman calls a "free America," by which he means an America in which no body has to pay for anything. In the upcoming Nixon Administration, the YIP will doubtless find ample targets for further demonstrations-perhaps...