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After students thundered through his lobby, the manager of the South Padre Hilton resort christened it the Gaza Strip and barricaded one entrance with potted plants. The Holiday Inn signed on 80 additional workers to deal with the overflow of revelers. The Sheraton, its $270-a-night suites jammed, brought in a security force from Dallas...
Activities directors from the various hotels crammed each day with a Club Med melange of crab races, scuba, and belly-flop and tanning contests. "Some of it's a little crazy," said Hilton Director Bill Parousis, smiling as he oversaw a two-mile-long line of students attempting to fashion the world's largest sand castle. "But it's keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week...
...bedroom and living room-den, with a television set and a telephone in each room. They are convenient for executives who need to work or conduct conferences in their rooms. Since 1984, Memphis-based Holiday has increased the number of Embassy Suites hotels from 26 to 75. Last week Hilton announced that it will build ten all-suites hotels by 1989, an investment of some $200 million. Next month Ramada will open its first all-suites property in Pompano Beach, Fla. Ramada plans to build more all-suites inns as part of a substantial expansion of its chain, from...
Many older hotels that have mostly single rooms have set aside special office space for executives. A major part of the $1 billion renovation now / under way at the Hilton chain is the creation of business centers in most of its hotels. There, guests can use computer terminals, pick up business publications and check stock quotes on the Dow Jones financial wire. The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles offers quick typing, photocopying and telex services and the use of a reference library at its business center...
...squiring an array of beautiful women around Jerusalem. He began building his fortune in the 1970s by discovering oil in the Sinai peninsula, then racked up more profits by speculating in the wildly bullish Tel Aviv stock market of that period. Sofer today maintains a suite in the Jerusalem Hilton, which he bought in 1982 for $18 million in partnership with a group of U.S. investors, among them Fort Worth Oilman Louis Barnett. The SEC claims that Sofer shared his illegal stock tips with Barnett and another friend, Michael Jesselson, whose father Ludwig Jesselson is the founder of Philip Bros...