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GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
...greater challenge was to stay mentally fit. He found comfort in recollections of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's classic novel about a prisoner locked in solitary confinement. After a while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave...
...kidnapping echoed last year's tragic abduction of Exxon executive Sidney Reso, who died after Arthur Seale, a former security officer for the giant oil company, and his wife Irene imprisoned him in a storage locker. While kidnapping is still a relatively rare crime in the U.S., the number of cases investigated by the FBI last year jumped 23%, to 713 cases, 66 of them involving ransoms. The CEOs of big public corporations and entertainment celebrities have become increasingly cautious, installing high-tech security systems and hiring bodyguards. Nowadays, say security experts, the more tempting targets are the wealthy owners...
GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...