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Trudeau was born in 1919 in Montreal's affluent, French-speaking Outremont district, the son of a millionaire oil and land investor. He attended the best Jesuit schools, consistently topping his class. He went on to the University of Montreal law school, then spent two years studying politics and economics at Harvard and in Paris and London. He returned to Quebec in 1949 as a labor lawyer and economist. Trudeau flirted with socialism and became an outspoken civil libertarian, fighting against the autocratic and nationalist provincial government of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Early on, Trudeau accepted the idea of Quebec...
...Star was to reach its full potential, he felt, it must be backed by resources beyond the reach of a single investor. So last week he reached agreement to sell the Star for $20 million to Time Inc., publisher of TIME, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, MONEY and FORTUNE magazines. The company, which also has extensive book, cable television and forest-products operations, last year had profits of about $90 million on revenues of $1.25 billion...
Further planning, for the moment, seems impossible; already one investor who was prepared to put up $400,000 to build the settlement's first hotel has pulled back. The people of Yamit were outraged at the reaction when they offered 50 building lots for sale in Israel as a symbolic way to draw attention and secure support for their cause. The lots were sold quickly enough, but to speculators gambling on profits to be made from indemnities if and when the area is returned to Egyptian sovereignty...
...assistants and a research firm called Corporate Data Exchange, Reinemer dug through tons of information, most of it on the public record, involving 122 major corporations. Last week the study was published. Of the firms, 56 either had more than 5% of their shares voted by a single institutional investor, had more than 10% controlled by five or fewer such investors, or had 10% owned by a single family. Among the top five stockholders in each of the 122 companies, twelve investors showed up more than half the time. New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust...
...Investor votes...