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...start sifting through evidence. The last either scientist had seen of Simpson, he had gone upstairs to say goodbye to his family; the next thing they knew, the suspect had vanished with his friend A.C. Cowlings. According to a confidential interoffice memorandum from the D.A.'s office, Simpson's cellular-phone records show that three calls were received or placed from a location near the cemetery where Nicole was buried. In a nontaped interview, Cowlings told police he saw a marked police vehicle near the cemetery when they arrived there and hid the Bronco in an orange grove...
...core business: long-distance phone service, the recently acquired McCaw Cellular phone subsidiary, and credit cards. Name: still AT&T. Revenues: $49 billion a year, based on 1994 figures. Profits: more than three-quarters of the $4.7 billion AT&T earned last year. Chief executive: Allen. (He has named Alex Mandl, his heir apparent, to oversee the transition to the slimmed-down AT&T.) Employees...
...technology is enabling Ma Bell to muscle back into the local markets turned over to the Baby Bells by the 1984 court-ordered divestiture. It can do this now by offering cellular-phone service and later by setting up networks of PCS (personal-communication services) phones. These are new wireless, portable phones. AT&T might also link up with cable-TV companies to route phone calls over TV cables...
...which proves that vertical integration is always a mistake, or that corporate giantism is naturally inefficient. Indeed, in a similar move to the NCR acquisition, AT&T paid $11.5 billion for McCaw in 1993 and still hopes that the purchase will pay the corporation's way into the cellular-phone market. And with around $50 billion in revenues, AT&T will still be a titan after the breakup, and so will the two companies to be born from...
GUILTY. GEORGE LINDEMANN, 31, scion of a cellular-phone empire; of having his underperforming show horse Charisma electrocuted in order to get $250,000 in insurance money; in Chicago. He is one of 23 upscale equestrians indicted in a fraud scheme...