Word: parks
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...packed 27 young children into a van legally meant to transport only 15 passengers. Because students were overflowing the regulation seats, some were seated on the floors--making it impossible for the counselors to maintain control in the small van as it sped along the Mass Pike to Riverside Park...
...with Coghlan in a seedy London hotel one night last September. During the trial Coghlan, 36, who admitted to having sex with "thousands" of men during a 19-year career as a prostitute, testified that Archer had approached her in Shepherd Market, an area off fashionable Park Lane favored by streetwalkers. Though the hotel encounter lasted only ten minutes, she said, she was positive of Archer's identity because "for those ten minutes I was lying on top of that man, and I was looking into his eyes...
...Lord or People That Love) ministry were confronted at a public bankruptcy hearing by members of the flock that had supported the $203 million religious empire created by its ousted leaders, Jim and Tammy Bakker. The officials struggled to assure PTL donors that the foundering television- and-theme-park ministry, now about $68 million in debt, might soon turn a profit. Asserted the new PTL chief operating officer, Harry Hargrave: "We will be able to pay our debts. We are very confident of that...
Aside from his cash flow, one urgent problem facing Falwell is what to do about the claims of 120,000 PTL "Lifetime Partners" who each gave at least $1,000 to the organization, with the promise of free lodging for three nights a year at the ministry's theme-park hotel. The organization, though, has little hope of fulfilling those pledges because the number of donors exceeds the number of hotel rooms available by 5 to 1. Falwell noted last week that if the court declares those donations, which total $180 million, as debt, PTL will have to close down...
...control at PTL continues is that the stakes, even in bankruptcy, are considerable. For all its financial woes, PTL remains a glittering prize, with its daily TV show, its all-day religious cable service transmitted to 13 million homes, and the splashy, 2,300-acre Heritage USA theme park, the ministry's entertainment centerpiece. PTL's Hargrave denied at the bankruptcy meeting that Falwell had usurped PTL's 518,000-donor mailing list and that checks made out to PTL had gone to the Lynchburg ministry. Bakker loyalists remain unconvinced. Said Robert Zanesky, the lawyer for a group...