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...acre claim in the area, and one of Hughes's advisers speculated that perhaps $12 billion in gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed deals for Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel ($30.7 million) and Silver Slipper Saloon ($5,400,000) and their gambling casinos, giving him six hotels and 15% of all the action in Nevada...
When the paper was sold to Sam Newhouse last year for $50 million, there was worry that Vail's stride would be broken by the press lord's well-known preoccupation with the balance sheet. But that has not happened. Newhouse has appeared at the Plain Dealer only once since he bought it and has not followed his usual practice of holding down editorial staff. He obviously has no fault to find with a paper that has been increasing its circulation about 10,000 a year...
...nuttiness would be welcomed by any school board in the country. In the past 33 years, Mott has pumped $42 million into the public schools of Flint to keep them open evenings, weekends and summers for an improbable array of community activities. This year 92,000 residents of Flint (pop. 200,000), more than half of them adults, have signed up for extra curricular educational, recreational and civic programs in the city's schools. Including 47,000 school-age children, well over half of Flint's residents are involved in some form of school activity...
...think you can." Spitz's dedication to swimming does not keep him from being a serious student: he gets Bs, has applied for entrance to Stanford, plans to study dentistry. "I wonder," he says, "how it will be when I'm Mark Spitz, just one of a million dentists, after all the travel and attention...
...Antonio, long a sleepy city (pop.: 755,550) at the edge of the Texas hill country, previously noted mainly as the site of the Alamo. For another, it stimulates tourism: officials estimate conservatively that, during HemisFair, 7,500,000 people will visit San Antonio and will spend $35 million there...