Word: tjaereborg
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...Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg owns a fleet of two Caravelles, seven DC-6-Bs, and 70 highway buses...
Divine Comedy. Krogager keeps prices churchmouse cheap: a weeklong, all-expense trip to Rhodes costs $103; a 19-day Tjaereborg bus tour of eight cities, including Moscow and Berlin, costs $125. Krogager plows most earnings back into the companies, whose plant and equipment are now worth $45 million. His Sterling Airways, run for him by a onetime SAS pilot, has on order two more Caravelles and a DC-6-B. Krogager is also building an eleven-story hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol and planning another on Rhodes. The company is about to rent a computer for data...
...Caesar. Churchman Krogager keeps God's business and Caesar's nicely separated. Technically, he is only a consultant to Tjaereborg, though he has the consent of his bishop and elders to consult as much as he wants. When other travel agencies complained about his growing activity, Denmark's Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs itself announced that there was no conflict between church work and tourism...
Krogager wears a wristwatch with built-in alarm; when it rings during business conferences, he leaves to attend his pastoral duties for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denmark's national church. Along with separate Sunday services in the towns of Tjaereborg and Sneum, Krogager also works the 41-acre farm where he lives with his wife Gorma, a former actress, and Daughter Kirstine-Louise, 19. Krogager prefers not to ask for a curate to help with the church work in his flourishing parishes. "I am the only pastor in Denmark," he says, "who cannot allow himself...
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