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When Edgar Bronfman was a little boy, his father built a bicycle path behind the wall that surrounded the Bronfman estate rn Montreal. That way Edgar could ride in complete safety from any danger of kidnapers. It was a few years after the Lindbergh kidnaping, and Sam Bronfman was a man who liked to anticipate trouble and take precautions. That was a trait he had inherited from his father, Yechiel, who had been a prosperous miller in Bessarabia in Eastern Europe. When Yechiel went to Montreal in 1889 in flight from Russian antiSemitism, he booked passage not only...
...Museum, and still donates at least another $1 million annually to various worthy institutions. For the making of more money he also relied on his children, particularly his oldest son. Scrappy and assertive, Edgar went south to Williams College in Massachusetts, but after three indifferent years he transferred to Montreal's McGill University to get his B. A. degree...
...fairways of Vail, Colo., but his men were busy in the hinterlands on his behalf. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on the verge of a new round of Middle East talks, joined with Attorney General Edward Levi in bringing to the American Bar Association's convention in Montreal Ford's messages of diplomatic and investigative restraint. Then Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William Simon was smiting big Government hip and thigh, while Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz...
Four new hotels promised by Montreal officials were not ready, and as many as 3,000 lawyers who wanted to attend were forced to stay home. On top of that, the A.B.A. had to cough up $75,000 to bus some delegates back and forth from convention headquarters to hotels as much as an hour's ride away. Judges who are members of the A.B.A. usually hold their own meeting in conjunction with the convention, but this year they were chivvied into convening early, clearing their agenda and getting out of town fast so that their beds would...
A.B.A. staffers saw the trouble coming and recommended a shift in sites. They were overruled by the A.B.A. governors, who decided that Montreal would somehow make room...