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Last week Catterson saw his photo in an ad for an HBO film, Missing Persons: Four True Stories. He returned to New Jersey and saw the program in a motel room. After watching the scenes of his grieving family, Catterson went to the Lodi police, who helped track them down. Ironically, they had moved to Tarpon Springs, Fla., about 200 miles from Catterson's new home. "I'm ecstatic," said a forgiving Patricia. Said the returned husband and father: "It looks like everything's working out wonderfully...
Since Shultz's visit, the U.S. representative at the talks has been Ambassador Harry Shlaudeman, a highly regarded career diplomat. Shlaudeman has held four meetings with his opposite number, Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco: three in Manzanillo and a fourth at a motel on the outskirts of Atlanta. As a sign of good faith, both sides have remained determinedly close-mouthed about the discussions. U.S. diplomats in Washington, however, have revealed that only two of the meetings were spent on minor procedural issues. Says a U.S. official: "There has been no grandstanding or stalling. The talks moved...
...become an agreeable long-term habit. And as millions of informaniacs from the Hamptons to the White House West were testing their trivia wits this summer, the three Canadians (two former journalists and a retired hockey goaltender) who dreamed up the game in 1979 were secreted in a motel on the outskirts of Toronto, crash-coursing the last 2,000 or so questions for the Genus II U.S. edition of Trivial Pursuit, due out next January. Scott Abbott and the brothers Chris and John Haney, multimillionaires and still in their mid-30s, could afford plusher accommodations, but, as Chris notes...
CAMPAIGN James Johnson kept his glacial blue eyes glued to the motel-room TV set, his mouth slightly open as if in wonder. Walter Mondale's campaign chairman had been in the state capitol in St. Paul earlier that day, of course, but he wanted to relive that poignant experience. He switched around among all three networks, nodding in silent approval as anchormen described Mondale's running-mate selection as historic and unprecedented. The phone broke into Johnson's reverie: it was his boss calling. Johnson told him the story had dominated the nightly news and the national reaction...
Subtitled A Tale of Terror, this novel will horrify only those who believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind...