Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Good evening. This is the CBS Evening News, Jesse Helms reporting. Message-ID: <232@talcott.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:41:02 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.232 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:41:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:18:45 EST References: <295@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <929@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 20 [All about Jesse Helms planning to control CBS] > So in order get controlling influence of the company (ie, get > 50.000...0001% of the stock of CBS) would cost > 29.7M * $73.875 (say) / 2 = $1097.04M = $1+ BILLION. > > I understand from an "All Things Considered" report that the plan > was to send the letters to 1 million conservatives. Each (and > every one!) would have to buy $1000 of CBS stock (guess what such > a rush to buy will do to the stock price?). And then they all > have to agree (each and every one!) on what policies CBS should > follow. > -- > Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam I heard he was planning on buying the solar system next. :-) --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn