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...wandered into a Fairchild Industries mini-theater to see an eight-minute movie The Hammer, which showed the firm's weapons-laden A-10 tactical-support aircraft in action. Usherettes passed out buttons proclaiming A-10 PILOTS DO IT BETTER WITH A BIGGER GUN. At the Pratt & Whitney booth, S.R.O. crowds gathered to watch Magician Dick Ryan perform feats of prestidigitation while standing next to an F-100 engine built for the Air Force's hot new F-15 fighter. Up popped three red balls in Ryan's hand to symbolize the company's "quality, dependability...
This year Ford's rebuilding claims don't pack quite the punch they did a year ago. He has returning on defense a tandem of All-Ivies in co-captains Ralph Booth and Geoff Hargadon. Joining the fullback defense today will be Kevin Jiggets a big fast back who looks tough to beat...
Despite the plea, there was no response all day. Bronfman, restive under the strain, went back to the original J.F.K. phone booth, pacing back and forth outside it for hours. Finally, the phone rang. "Not tonight ... tomorrow ... tomorrow," said a voice. One of the conspirators had apparently been scouting the terminal area and had seen Bronfman there. The arrangements were confirmed in another Raven call to Yorktown. The drop would be at 8 p.m. Friday night, same place. "No cops. No feds," warned the caller...
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...
...asked an angry kidnaper in an early-morning call to the Yorktown house. "He's f----d up again." A family spokes man told the caller that Bronfman was where he was supposed to be, waiting at the Burger King. Soon a phone rang in a booth near the hamburger place. Bronfman was told to drive to a nearby location, park, and stay at the wheel...