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...Bakker (pronounced baker), 46, is the boyish-faced Pentecostal proprietor of the PTL (for People That Love or Praise the Lord) Network in Charlotte, N.C. The network ranks second to Robertson's CBN in Christian cable (13 million households, 24 hours, all religion). The featured offering is the daily Jim and Tammy show, a variety-and-talk program with Bakker and his wife as hosts on an opulent, hacienda-style set with orchestra, singers and live audience. Bakker's receipts exceed $100 million a year. Much of the money is eaten up by his Heritage USA theme park, opened...
...commercial, funny and effective, aptly reflects the brash, risk-taking style of the third-generation proprietor. Since becoming publisher of the paper 16 months ago, Will Hearst, 36, has added half a dozen new columnists, launched a Sunday magazine and tried to instill a dash of unpredictability in the reportage. He says his goal is to make the Examiner one of the ten best newspapers in the country, a dream the paper proudly touts in print ads by running a picture of Hearst under a headline assigning him blame if ambition exceeds grasp...
...Cairo's luxurious Hyatt El Salam Hotel. Many soldiers stopped in the Hyatt's Bazaar Shop to buy such Christmas gifts as papyrus, Arabic phrase books and necklaces adorned with Sphinx pendants. "They were laughing and dancing a little to the belly-dance music playing in the shop," recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal in the grand ballroom, dining on tomato soup, roast chicken and French pastry. One of the officers offered a prayer: "We are going home. We have finished our job. Let us thank...
This week in Cambridge: a shoe store proprietor was held up, a mental patient escaped, and a meter maid was beaten...
...other proprietor could not be reached for comment...