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...never attacked each other." Why not? "We have no ego problem," says Yorkin. "We know that whatever either of us succeeds in doing is good for both, because it all goes in the same pot." The pot is growing bigger; what to do next is becoming a multimillion-dollar question. Indeed, what else is left for Yorkin and Lear now that they have given TV a new system of dating-B.B. and A.B. (Before Bunker and After Bunker)? How much longer can they compete with themselves for the top audience ratings...
...enduring element of American genius is the ability to turn almost any activity into a thriving multimillion-dollar business. Political conventions, however, are a partial exception. They have indeed become a growth industry, but no one seems to be getting rich off them...
...southwest coast of Florida, along 200 miles of shoreline from St. Petersburg to Naples, still consists largely of mangrove swamps-low-lying tangles infested with insects. But to developers, the swamps hold a promise of beachfront resorts as shiny and lucrative as those on the east coast, and a multimillion-dollar building boom has already started. Big companies like Gulf American Corp., GAC Corp. and Mackle Bros, are moving into the area, filling in the wetlands and building high-rise hotels and condominiums. The most unyielding obstacle to this juggernaut of change is a pensioner of modest means named George...
Pint-sized Jeno Paulucci is a blend of tough tycoon and softhearted humanitarian. Twice in the past 25 years he has built multimillion-dollar enterprises in the turbulent food-packaging business. At the same time he has taken pride in hiring and training the handicapped and others usually considered unemployable, many of them eligible for welfare payments. More than half of Paulucci's employees in Duluth, Minn., are missing fingers, must wear neck or leg braces, or are deaf mutes, mentally retarded, partially blind, alcoholics or ex-prisoners. As a result, the President's Committee on Employment...
Died. George Maxwell Bell, 59, Calgary oil financier and chairman of P.P. Publications Ltd., Canada's largest newspaper chain; following surgery for a brain tumor; in Montreal. Bell bailed out his father's debt-ridden Calgary Albertan by borrowing from friends, then went on to build a multimillion dollar fortune through shrewd oil investments and by picking up other newspaper properties. In 1959, he and Winnipeg Free Press Publisher Victor Sifton joined forces to form the nine-paper P.P. chain. "The good Lord put me in the right place at the right time with the right friends...