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...Taber learned that in Secret Service lingo, Blumenthal is known as "Fencing Master," and the Treasury as "Castle." "Besides talking freely about his economic views, Blumenthal obviously enjoyed recalling his early years, telling tales about working as a casino shill and a lighting man for a strip show in Nevada," says Taber. "After stories like that, it was difficult to turn the interview back to questions about the capital gains...
...Nevada: Lahontahn Dam on the Carson River has an inadequate spillway...
...business of gambling is exciting new interest far outside Nevada these days; casinos are scheduled to open next year in Atlantic City, N.J., and there is talk of legalizing them in Florida and possibly New York. Starting a casino, however, hardly gives investors a license to coin money, as the owners of some deficit-ridden Nevada operations have discovered: gambling is a fast-paced, cash-heavy business that, like any other, must be tightly run to turn a profit. How tightly, TIME Correspondent John Quirt learned by studying Harrah's, one of the oldest (it celebrated its 40th birthday...
...authorities reckon that their city has already lost $9 million in forgone convention business as a result. For its part, NOW estimates the loss for New Orleans at $7 million; Chicago, $15 million; Las Vegas, $30 million; Atlanta, $12 million.' The boycott was born last February as the Nevada legislature was voting on the ERA. The California branches of NOW and of the League of Women Voters took out a small ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, urging weekend gamblers to stay away from Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and other Nevada gambling spots. Recalls Jeane Bendorf, chairman...
...States that have not ratified: Alabama Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina Utah, Virginia. Idaho, Nebraska and Tennessee have voted to rescind approval...