Word: las
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the unfortunate hero in Dostoevsky's The Gambler, Miss Stanwyck is essentially a decent person consumed by a hopeless passion for pitting the probable against the possible. Her downfall begins during a brief visit to Las Vegas, where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame...
...part because much of their equipment is 40 years old," Mexican trains arrive on time so seldom that Mexicans call them las tortugas (turtles). In 1947, 162,000 passenger trains pulled in late; freight-train delays were so fantastic that the government suppressed the figures. On one 700-kilometer run, one freight "turtle" crawled in just 100 days late...
Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
Monte Carlo's Casino, out for the U.S. dollar, decided that the way to get it was in a good old American way. Last week, Louis Ceresol, boss of the money-losing Casino (TIME, May 3), and one of his croupiers visited Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. to learn how to shoot craps...
...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...