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...right. It would (1) force the Federal government out of all business enterprises, (2) keep the country out of international agreements, NATO as well as the UN, and, of course, (3) abolish the income tax. The Liberty Amendment has been approved by the legislatures of Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, and South Carolina, whose state senate passed it without a dissenting vote. Here in Massachusetts, the principal lobbyist for the measure is Col. Laurence E. Bunker, a John Bircher who organized January's "Rally for God and country" in Boston...
...player was known to be a regular bettor, and then word got out that he had failed to bet on one game. How come? Was something up? Last but not least, gambling on football games is illegal in every state but one-and there are no pro teams in Nevada...
...about Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile-long scenic jewel 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, and so the lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...
...room hotel and casino; the Frank Sinatra pack owns an old hotel on the northern side and is aiming to make it ring-a-ding with a 300-room expansion. But it is the southern shore, where the customers from California most conveniently meet the casinos of Nevada, that is teeming with neon civilization...
...million people attended horse tracks, bet $3.6 billion on how the nags would finish, and thereby contributed some $288 million to the treasuries of the 24 states that get a cut of the pari-mutuel proceeds. This, plus dog racing in seven states, Florida's jai alai and Nevada's wide-open casinos, pushed the gambling revenues even higher...