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...rivals fired public-relations broadsides at each other, Vogüé dropped Saint-Gobain's traditional secrecy about company finances and prospects and wooed its long-ignored and meagerly rewarded stockholders with good news. He promised a 25% stock dividend and predicted that profits would double by 1971 to $50 million. His unprecedented Sunday open house drew tens of thousands of fascinated Frenchmen to S-G plants all over France...
Mysterious Friends. BSN was not defeated, however, by Vogüé's $1,000,000 massive public-relations effort, but by mysterious Saint-Gobain "friends" with strong financial connections abroad. As soon as BSN announced its bid, Vogüé's allies started buying Saint-Gobain stock. In five weeks, some 4,600,000 Saint-Gobain shares changed hands at prices that climbed all the way to $48. Vogüé's "friends" paid $180 million for 3,500,000 shares, bringing their holdings to 42% of the company's stock, more than enough to assure...
...unexpected Saint-Gobain defense prompted BSN accusations that the company itself had illegally financed the purchases. Although Vogüé denied any wrongdoing, French Premier Maurice Couve de Murville ordered two quiet government investigations. No matter what the outcome of the inquiries, the battle itself has put French businessmen on notice that the old days of secrecy, silence and short-changed stockholders have faded. From now on, even the most tradition-steeped French managements will have to produce results in the profit column or face the possibility of another such flamboyant takeover attempt...
...Bengal army officer in 1809 at age 21. He didn't smoke, and he soon became a teetotaler. His only known thirst was for work, and that was regarded by his compatriots as unquenchable. In that wilting climate there was something of the untemptable Anglo-Saxon saint about Sleeman, as well as "something near to ruthlessness...
...quote is from Carlos Fuentes' novel Where the A ir Is Clear. The speaker is a former Mexican revolutionary who has turned businessman. Emiliano Zapata, a flesh-and-blood revolutionary with the unappeasable single-mindedness of a saint, no doubt would have spat at such words. He was a horse trainer and farmer who led the land-hungry campesinos of Mexico's south-central state of Morelos during the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. To Zapata opportunists like the character in the Fuentes book were cabrones(s.o.b.'s). "As soon as they see a little chance...