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...Nevada's William Raggio, 43, Washoe county district attorney, is trailing-but not by much-Incumbent Howard Cannon. Raggio, who also faces a lightly regarded primary opponent, is the only one of Nixon's starting nine who is not now a House member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The President's Candidates | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

Amateurs Only. "I'm not exactly sure where it belongs, but pornography has a place in society," argues de Renzy. Before coming to that conclusion, he studied zoology at the University of Nevada, taught at an Air Force survival school, worked as a croupier in Reno, and shot industrial films in San Francisco. After moonlighting on stag movies, he leased a 50-seat lust house that he renamed The Screening Room. He spent $50,000 refurbishing and expanding it and as much on legal fees fighting police efforts to close it down. Since 1968, the box-office gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sex Trip | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...Winthrop House (Astronomy): Mark F. Gerzon, of Indianapolis. Ind??, and Dudley House (Social Studies); Stephen Paul Gold?n, of Swampscott and Kirkland House: Henry Greenspan H of New York and Winthrop House (History and Literature); Roger P. Guthrie, of Napa, Calif., and Eliot House (Chemistry); James B. Haley of Nevada City, Calif., and Eliot House (Classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elections | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

Divorced. By Bobbie Gentry, 27, leggy pop singer (Ode to Billie Joe, 1967); William Harrah, 58, owner of Nevada's biggest gambling casino, Harrah's Club at Reno and Lake Tahoe; on grounds of incompatibility after four months of marriage; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 27, 1970 | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...rise in wages and fringe benefits over three years. There are also political problems ahead. George Franklin, Clark County district attorney who may run for Governor this year, wants to ban public companies from holding gaming licenses. For one thing, he says, criminals can too easily violate Nevada law by buying into casinos through their local stockbroker. To ensure state control over the casinos, Franklin prefers that public companies rent them out to private operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Run of Bad Luck in Gambling Stocks | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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