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Organized criminals react like any big businessmen: when they see customer potential they go after it. The potential is reflected to some extent in the statistics for legal gambling. In the last decade, gross wagering revenues have tripled in Nevada's casinos, to nearly $1.2 billion...
...Nevada authorities are investigating Spilotro for his alleged involvement in skimming* millions from the slot machines of the Stardust casino. FBI agents meanwhile are investigating Detroit gangsters who, working through fronts...
...said to own 24% of the Aladdin Casino and virtually to control its operation. A court affidavit disclosing the probe was the first official word of Mob holdings in a Las Vegas casino since Nevada authorities supposedly ran them out of town about ten years...
...first coal slurry pipeline was used in London in 1914. Currently, the only one functioning in the U.S. is the Black Mesa Pipeline, which runs 273 miles from Kayenta, Ariz., to the Mohave Generating Station in southern Nevada. But since pressures are sure to mount on the nation's coal delivery system, four other slurry pipelines are in various planning stages, all in the West or Southwest...
...growing black dominance in sports is evident in college athletics too. During the recent N.C.A.A. basketball playoffs, for example, Champion Marquette and Contenders Michigan and University of Nevada at Las Vegas each had only one white in their starting lineups. In N.C.A.A. football, most of 1976's top-ranked teams were loaded with black stars-in numbers far out of proportion to the percentage of black students on campus...