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...largest such firm (after Pinkerton's), reports that its executive protection business has doubled in the past year, and accounts for a sizable percentage of the firm's $200 million annual revenues. Other outfits, including makers of armored vehicles and surveillance systems, as well as anti-kid-nap driving schools, are also expanding. For years, says David Dearborn, director of investigations at Pinkerton's, selling security in the U.S. has been "a little like selling flood insurance in the desert." That is changing: "While the American businessman still doesn't typically think of security for himself...
...Mick and Bianca Jagger, George Harrison, Paul Simon and four out of seven of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players." With a crowd like this and a subject like the Beatles, one expects to be dazzled, but All You Need Is Cash is an invitation to take a nap. No wonder the show airs on NBC, the network that is American television's answer to Waterloo...
...version supplied gratis with $5 membership in the fan club) is curling at the edges. Maybe the battery in her portable radio has failed right in the middle of the station's 14th daily airing of Shaun Cassidy's latest hit. Maybe the family mastiff took a nap atop Shaun's two albums (combined sales: 5 million copies), warping them into a couple of vinyl flapjacks. Maybe the picture tube in the TV blew out, and she will miss Shaun in this week's installment of The Hardy Boys. Maybe she has heard Shaun announce that...
Linda Orf has fulfilled her desire to work while managing to care for Darren. After lunch on weekdays the two of them go to the Mather House office where she works as an administrative assistant while he plays nearby until his afternoon nap. The arrangement works because, she says, "Darren is as comfortable alone as he is with other people," and since he is not yet walking, he cannot move out of her sight. Darren meets many students during his hours in the office, and he is beginning to recognize and "talk" to some of them. "Maybe that...
...heavily rewrote the final version, with advice from Wife Rosalynn. He repeatedly read the speech into a pocket tape recorder, rehearsed it with a TelePrompTer before an audience of close aides, and even took a rare afternoon nap on the day of delivery to avoid any signs of fatigue. As a result, he looked more rested and relaxed than in some weeks, and he was able carefully to moderate his singsong Southern cadence and stop stepping on his punch lines. In rehearsal the speech had taken barely 30 minutes to deliver; before national television it spun on for 47 minutes...