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...Whittington was listed in stable condition. "He seems in good spirits. He's talking and conversing," said Yvonne Wheeler, a spokeswoman for Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial. "His condition is really looking good. They're just taking every precautionary measure. Recovery looks very positive." Added Peter Banko, the hospital's administrator, "He is a true gentleman... I hate to say sweetheart because it makes me sound like a female, but he is wonderful to be around. He is joking with the staff." Whittington was expected to be taken out of intensive care Monday afternoon and moved to a trauma...
MARKETING: Susan Boller, Martin Bounds, Liza Greene, Mark Hintsa, Tim Nix (Managers); Leigh-Ann Arentsen, Sam Atlee, Paulette Banko, Betty Barth, Teresa Belmonte, Evan Blank, Alison Collins, Sue Considine, Jill Goldring, Peter Granath, Nini Gussenhoven, Richard Hine, Jennie Hunnewell, Joe Johnson, Shira Kalish, Anna Mulhern, Armand Punzalan, Jenny Reed, Paton Roth, Trish Ryan-Sacks, Cynthia Shauck, Mary Shaw, Tom Tagariello, Andrea Wagner, Marlene Zeddies...
...next twist in TV games may be home-audience involvement. Two new shows planned for next season, Banko and WinAmerica Sweepstakes, will offer big cash prizes to viewers who play along at home with game cards to be distributed nationwide. The innovation could catch on, though the game-show community is wary. "You don't buy audiences with huge amounts of giveaway money," contends Mark Goodson, producer of such classics as To Tell the Truth and + Password. Chuck Barris, who has made a fortune as creator of such shows as The Dating Game and The Gong Show...
Winston E. Banko combines business with pleasure. Professionally, he is a biologist, stationed in Hawaii, bird watching for the U.S. Department of the Interior. It therefore gave him special pleasure when, while hacking his way through an island rain forest in search of rare biological specimens, he spotted a bird with a "yellow posterior and a peculiar, sickle-shaped bill." The bird was the Mauinukupuu (pronounced noo-koo-poo-oo), which had been considered extinct since...
Because of Banko's discovery, the Maui nukupuu was removed from the Interior Department's roster of extinct animals and put on the official list of "Endangered Species of Native Fish and Wildlife." The rest of that list, as announced last week, amounts to a catalogue of the 20th century's assault on wilderness life in the U.S. Some of the animals named may eventually drop off the list and disappear forever. A few, like Banko's bird, are species that have reappeared from apparent oblivion. A sampling...
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