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...Gill asks in his letter, "were the ordinary channels of discussion and persuasion avoided? Why was confrontation chosen not as the last but as the first resort...
...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...
...European money crisis only dramatized what many experts have long regarded as an unassailable dictum: the free world's monetary system is overdue for an overhaul. That system-the internationally agreed basis for exchanging one currency for another-was born 24 years ago in the resort town of Bretton Woods, N.H. Imbued with a sense of wartime unity and mindful that competitive currency devaluations had deepened and prolonged the Depression of the '30s, the delegates from 45 nations took only three weeks to devise the fundamentals...
...campaign's last days. On the other hand, Nixon's promise of a new team unfettered by the outgoing Administration's war policies undoubtedly attracted many votes. Wallace's stated intention to turn the war over to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a last resort obviously had little appeal...
...crowd of 100,000 gathered on the promenade of the channel resort town of Brighton, jostling for a look down the road that led from London. At last, the first car appeared. Then another and another. Finally, after eight hours, the last of some 250 pre-1905 cars to make the annual 50-mile "Old Crocks' Race," puffed, wheezed and whistled into town, piloted by a collection of antique-car buffs who consider themselves the royalty of the auto world. Appropriately enough, some real royalty was on hand for the proceedings: Monaco's Prince Rainier, at the wheel...