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...Nixon Administration that a federal grand jury should examine the matter thoroughly. With the jury's power to issue subpoenas and grant immunity, Davies argues, the still obscure truth of precisely why the Guardsmen fired their guns could be secured. Davies, 42, is a New York City insurance broker who has spent most of his spare time for the past three years pursuing the case out of an ordinary citizen's response to what he considers a challenge to the American conscience...
...raised $30,000 for local development, whereupon an impressed regional government chipped in $60,000 for his projects. "I have told my people," he says, "that if they can save substantial sums of money in banks, they will attract loan capital to improve commercial and industrial life." An insurance broker before being installed as Alafin in 1971, he is also a former boxer and soccer player...
...country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product -sparked by American investment-nearly doubled, Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province, and the country took an increasingly large role as an "honest broker" in international affairs...
...Telegraph Corp. was founded in 1920 by Sosthenes Behn, who was born of Franco-Danish parents in the Virgin Islands and was educated in Corsica and Paris. With such a background, it is not difficult to see how Behn's buccaneering character developed. Starting out as a sugar broker, he got into telecommunications almost by accident. He and his brother Hernand bought a small, foundering telephone company in Puerto Rico. The brothers soon acquired another phone system in Cuba, moved on into Spain, and bought the international holdings of Western Electric. By the mid-'20s the young empire...
Married. Nelson Doubleday, 40, grandson of the founder of Doubleday & Co. and executive vice president of the venerable, family-controlled American publishing giant; and Sandra Pine Barnett, thirtyish, a Connecticut real estate broker; both for the second time; in Greenwich, Conn. Three days later, Doubleday came into full control of roughly $10 million of company stock, worth $300,000 a year in dividends...