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...doesn't feel out of touch with things that are going on back home--something that Jim Sam sees as a problem for Indian students--because his father, a Paiute Indian and the executive director of the Nevada Indian Affairs Commission, keeps him well informed. "He's given me a million books to read," Morres says...
...came to Harvard after taking a year off, during which he "bought a bus pass and traveled 30,000 miles in two months, visited 30 different schools, worked in New York City for a month, stayed here at Harvard for two months, and worked as a page in the Nevada State Legislature." Once he got here, he found that, in some ways, it was easier to adjust to Harvard than to high school...
...that opened the earlier film. The occasion for a party this time is the First Communion of Michael Corleone's son. The setting is Lake Tahoe, where Michael, as the new head of the "family," has moved his home office in order to run his casino operations in Nevada. An emptily handsome U.S. Senator commands attention in order to acknowledge receipt of Michael's handsomely empty contribution to the state university's scholarship fund. Inevitably, the lawmaker finds it impossible to throw his Western accent around a proper pronunciation of the new philanthropist's name. Equally...
...TIME'S cover story examines the likely depth and duration of the slump and its effects on people's lives. To gauge the human impact of stagflation, correspondents around the country interviewed auto mechanics and amusement park owners, Wall Street lawyers and welfare clients, accountants and one Nevada bordello madam. In New York, the story was written by Associate Editor Timothy M. James, while Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro assembled volumes of background material...
...observed that "the gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." Yet in today's skittish economic climate, most businessmen can only view with envy the profitable growth of the gaming empire headed by William Fisk Harrah, 63. It includes two glossy Nevada casinos-one in Reno, one in Lake Tahoe-along with two hotels containing 19 food-service areas and 18 cocktail bars. In the fiscal year ended in June, Harrah's Inc. of Reno, one of two gambling operations listed on the New York Stock Exchange, raked in a profit...