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...that he had been following stop by a phone booth on a lonely road. He presumed that it was the agent impersonating Mrs. Kronholm's husband, and he pulled his auto into a side road, hoping to witness what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup of a kidnap ransom. By then, Sorensen's editors had radioed him to abandon the assignment, and a car with two suspicious-looking plainclothesmen was approaching him. Sorensen finally decided to pull out. "I was getting too damn warm," he acknowledged later...
...just as the studios did several decades ago when they were obligated to provide a weekly change of bill for their theater chains. Sometimes TV's good ideas do not quite come off, as in Shirts/Skins, in which no one decided whether the intense rivalries generated in a pickup basketball game were a funny or sad commentary on the modern competitive spirit. But sometimes they do, as in I Love You ... Goodbye, in which Hope Lange gave a sensitive, appealing performance as a fed-up housewife running away from a middle-class marriage gone stale...
Still, the pickup in Arab investment has been noticeable. "Every day we get offered vast sums, like $200 million at a time, to be invested in things like Treasury bills," says a California banker. Adnan Kahsoggi, a Saudi, has moved beyond U.S. bank deposits to buy U.S. banks. Over the past two years, he has purchased controlling interests in two headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif.: Security National, which has assets of $115 million, and the Bank of Contra Costa, with assets of $22.8 million...
...last few miles, he picked up an escort-one car carrying two men that drove ahead of him at a distance, another car with one occupant that followed. At an appointed sign, the courier placed both suitcases on the shoulder of the highway. Without waiting to watch the pickup, he turned and drove back to Atlanta...
...propelled carts recently began doing everything from delivering meals and surgical equipment to carrying off dirty linens and wastes. To prevent the spread of germs from one area of the hospital to another, the carts are programmed to return directly to an automatic sterilizing "carwash" after each delivery or pickup. The automated orderlies can electronically signal the hospital's elevators and ride up and down by themselves...