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Early in January Spears sent his wife a note and arranged a quiet meeting. They got together at Dallas' Lakewood Hotel, stayed there four days. Then Spears headed back to his desert hideaway. When his host, Turska, heard on a TV program that Spears was on the manifest of the crashed plane but was now believed to be alive, he called his attorney. Attorney's advice: get Spears out of the house and call...
...York University graduate ('42), and his brother Robert, 33, own the largest chain of U.S. resort hotels (seven with 2,800 rooms, including Miami Beach's Americana and Atlantic City's Traymore), now worth $60 million. They started with a $175,000 investment in Lakewood, NJ.'s Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in 1946. Tisch started buying into Loew's Theatres last April after it was separated from Loew's Inc., the movie production company, by a court order. He hopes to diversify the company, has been looking at real estate and industrial companies...
...Lakewood, Ohio...
...bright schoolchildren eagerly took on extra, out-of-class work, the parents (now incorporated as the nonprofit Lakewood Foundation) have expanded the program. Last week the foundation was conducting five French and three science once-a-week classes for ages six to twelve (sample project: observing the effect of radiation on hamsters), plus two Russian courses for adults and children, and a junior "Great Books," program that probes such works as Little Women and 20,000 Leagues under...
...solid is the foundation, in fact, that it has a waiting list of French teachers and a constant flow of applications from Lakewood boys and girls who want more stimulus than they get in school. But the foundation's sincerest compliment has come from Lakewood's public-school system itself. Last fall, after the foundation's success with teaching French to children, the Lakewood public schools tentatively introduced Spanish, French and German to a selected group of seventh-graders. The program is working out so well that next fall these languages will be offered to all seventh...