The storm over Control Data Corp chairman Robert Price’s retirement and severance packages totalling over $5m (CI No 1,397) has got to the man: he will not seek reelection as non-excutive chairman at the annual meeting on May 2, and the company is looking again at the $1.35m in consultancy payments it had planned to make to him over the next three years; plans for him to work on CDC quality control programmes have also been abandoned.