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Simultaneously, the first big price war has flared in the computer industry. Under antitrust pressure, IBM last year decided to abandon the single-price, machine-plus-service package that had helped the company gain 70% of the U.S. computer market. The "unbundling" left IBM customers free to shop around for bargains in systems-engineering, programming and employee education. Customers had always been able to buy peripheral equipment-the storage and retrieval units that speed data into and out of the machines-from competitors offering prices up to 15% below IBM's. But unbundling illuminated the disparity. By year...
...Hollywood-derived rigor, most apparent in French Can Can, Renoir tried in the sixties to free actors again from the false god of the camera. Le Dejeuner sur I'Herbe (1959) is an experiment in theatrical anarchy; completely anti-naturalistic, it throws together absolutely irreconcilable acting styles with frightening abandon. The more naturalistic masterpiece The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1960) was shot from several angles at once so that each scene could be played integrally, not broken down shot by shot. Paradoxically, this shooting method gave the cutter more control than ever over the action, and Testament...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS)-at an open meeting of Dean May's sub-committee on co-residency yesterday-recommended that the CHUL abandon its plans for making all Harvard Houses co-ed for next year...
Allende has not yet found a way, however, to skirt the Christian Democrats on another issue. He has thus been forced to abandon temporarily his plan to set up "people's courts" to hear cases involving drunkenness, family quarrels and other minor offenses that rarely go before the regular judiciary. The opposition feared that the proposed courts, like people's tribunals in China, might also start doling out punishment for "counter-revolutionary" behavior...
...company was running out of money to meet its payroll. Two weeks ago, Rolls once more took its plight tp the government. This time, the Tory Cabinet declined to put up any more money. Instead, it decided to let Rolls-Royce declare bankruptcy, nationalize most of the remains and abandon the engine contract if it could not be renegotiated...