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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Good evening. This is the CBS Evening News, Jesse Helms reporting.
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:41:02 EST
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[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.  :-)
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn