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FRIDAY. Bronfman eagerly kept the appointment, this time driving to J.F.K. with just the $2.3 million in the trunk of a different car. Raven was punctual, but he directed Bronfman from one phone booth to another through a wide section of Long Island for four hours-a fairly standard kidnap technique designed to detect the presence of tailing police and prevent the tracing of phone calls. Accustomed to being driven by chauffeurs, Bronfman had difficulty finding his way through strange neighborhoods and traffic. At one point in Queens, he made a wrong turn, nearly hit another car in circling...
...Bronfman's car. He directed Bronfman to drive through an alley and circle the block twice while he checked for any tailing cars. Apparently satisfied that they were unobserved, the man ordered Bronfman to pull alongside a car parked at a curb. Bronfman did so, then opened the trunk of his car. The kidnaper quickly transferred the bundles of cash to the trunk of the other vehicle. Said the man: "Your son will be returned. Go home and keep quiet." Then he drove...
...that can be a treasure of sorts, at least for the imaginatively trashy National Enquirer. Under orders from his editors, Reporter Jay Gourley, 27, lifted five green plastic bags of refuse from in front of the Georgetown home of Nancy and Henry Kissinger and put them in the trunk of his 1968 Buick. Alert Secret Service agents and police promptly swooped down on him, and it took 21/2 hours of argument before Gourley convinced them that the trash by law constituted abandoned property and was there for the taking...
...World is seeking a bigger slice of the U.S. commercial-air-travel market-and trying to start a fare war with the nation's big trunk airlines to win it. While Daly was off packing a .38 in Saigon last week, the line petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for authority to operate regularly scheduled coast-to-coast flights. Its proposed one-way fare between New York or Washington and Los Angeles or San Francisco: $89 plus tax, or about 25% less than the lowest transcontinental fares on United, American and TWA. Predictably, other airlines announced plans to fight...
Tonight we load blankets into the trunk and drive west on impulse without leaving any messages behind. Sheree feels comfortable in cars. She can't handle people very well, but when a machine goes awry she rarely slips up. Her brow is usually rutted, which strangers take for anger. For me, Sheree has a sullen intrigue. To others, she radiates a tension that Ronda deflects with her glib smile and the glinting earring in a pierced nostril. They are always together...