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Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...
Rockport campers begin their days at the ocean with morning calisthenics, followed by seminars on nutrition, stress control, communications and other topics. In the afternoon they can get a tan, swim or play croquet. The program has been so popular that Katz hopes next year to give employees three days at camp instead...
...case? What about the many sightings over the years of Mengele in Paraguay, even as recently as last summer? And why had the Bosserts taken up with an infamous mass murderer in the first place? "If the Bossert account is true," said West German Mengele Researcher Otmar Katz, "then it contradicts all the information about Mengele for the past 20 years...
...even after her infamous invitation to Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb, the main characters in the recent Chicago rape-testimony recantation, to hug on the air. "We needed a high-powered, experienced TV personality to draw people away from two established, successful competitors," says Executive Producer Jon Katz. "Phyllis George will bring a lot of people into our tent. All she needs is time...
George's arrival was accompanied by an overhaul of the show, including a new set complete with couch, brassy theme music and twisting, gridlike graphics. Estimated price tag: $2 million. Despite the show's dismal ratings, Katz remains confident. He points out that the program expanded to two hours only three years ago; before that, it split its time slot with Captain Kangaroo. "Morning News suffers, more than anything else, from not being on the air long enough," says Katz...