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          deciding the issue presented under section 1504(a)(1).20                    
               Initially, we note that, to the extent that it is petition-            
          ers' position that it is the actual exercise of voting power                
          which controls the question presented to us under section                   
          1504(a)(1) and amended section 1504(a)(1)(B) and (2)(A), we                 
          disagree.  It is the legal right to exercise voting power that is           
          determinative under those provisions.  See Atlantic City Elec.              
          Co. v. Commissioner, 288 U.S. 152, 153-154 (1933); Handy & Harman           
          v. Burnet, 284 U.S. 136, 141 (1931); Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. v.               
          Commissioner, 81 F.2d at 974.                                               
               Furthermore, even if the restricted matters at issue on                
          which the Alumax board and the Alumax stockholders had the power            
          to vote by class were, as petitioners claim, extraordinary or               
          highly unusual, those matters, like the ordinary or day-to-day              


          20  The reasons advanced by petitioners (as well as their expert)           
          for ignoring the director and stockholder class voting required             
          on the restricted matters at issue (and for ignoring the manda-             
          tory dividend provision and the objectionable action provision              
          discussed below) in resolving the question presented under sec.             
          1504(a)(1) and amended sec. 1504(a) are based on certain qualita-           
          tive and/or quantitative judgments that they (as well as their              
          expert) have made about those matters.  In making those judg-               
          ments, petitioners have done precisely what they argue "all                 
          judicial and administrative authorities" preclude us from doing             
          in deciding that issue.  Petitioners seek to impose their judg-             
          ments on this Court and criticize respondent for asking this                
          Court to make its own judgments about the impact of the director            
          and stockholder class voting requirements (as well as the manda-            
          tory dividend provision and the objectionable action provision)             
          on the resolution of the issue before us under sec. 1504(a)(1).             
          We, of course, are not bound by petitioners', or respondent's,              
          judgments.                                                                  





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