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...single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd; and police murmur discreetly into cellular intercoms. But otherwise it's like being shepherded, en masse, through an empty stage set. Nobody here but us tourists. What you see is what you get. The only domestic trace is a mysterious table in the anteroom to the Ministers' Staircase, on which sit a bottle of Malvern water (unopened...
...next day, the abductors, dramatically calling themselves the Black Cat Organization, phoned twice to demand a $3 million ransom. Those were the first of what would eventually total more than 50 calls, including one recorded message from Weinstein and a brief call he was allowed to make on ! a cellular phone that his captors lowered down into the pit. Weinstein tried to hint at his location. "This is Harvey . . . I'm in a hole...
...father of Michael Jordan, had been murdered, police in Lumberton, North Carolina, arrested two youths in connection with the killing. Larry Martin Demery and Daniel Andre Green, both 18, are charged with robbing and murdering Jordan. Police found the pair by tracing calls they had made on the cellular phone while joyriding in Jordan's Lexus...
...announced it would acquire McCaw Cellular Communications, the nation's largest cellular-telephone company, for $12.6 billion. The pending deal has prompted antitrust concerns as Ma Bell hopes to stake its place in the booming wireless communications business, bypassing the Baby Bell systems that now handle cellular calls...
...highly personal kind of deal, done in a quiet hallway of a New York City hotel, man to man. The place was the Waldorf Astoria, and the players were Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T, and Craig McCaw, head of McCaw Cellular Communications. In the middle of an edgy negotiation, they had left their factotums, emissaries and lieutenants behind and paced the corridor together for just 20 minutes before shaking hands on a transaction in which the largest U.S. telephone company would buy the No. 1 provider of cellular service for $12.6 billion in stock. In the process, Craig McCaw...