Comedy, love of audience fuels great entertainers in Las Vegas
A Las Vegas column recounts a talk with Hank Henry and fellow entertainers at the Riviera Hotel. It links enduring talent to love of the audience, noting laughter and sorrow as intertwined, citing Red Skelton as an example and hinting at a broader pausing reflection on show business.
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Hank Henry
Las Vegas
Top Banana
Red Marshall
Minsky
Mort Marshall
Irv Harmon
Riviera Hotel
Red Skelton
Vegas narcotics sweep nets 24 arrests including four released
Police arrest 24 in a Las Vegas narcotics roundup from Paradise Valley to North Las Vegas. Six cars, a hookah pipe, and an abortion kit were seized. Ten suspects face federal charges and the rest state cases. undercover work began in July. One arrestee allegedly pointed a rifle at an officer.
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Lloyd Bell
Paradise Valley
Las Vegas
Johnson reveals space destroying weapons and radar advances
President Johnson announced the United States has weapons that could destroy satellites in orbit with nuclear bombs and revealed new radar devices able to see over the horizon to detect hostile missile launches. He noted two systems to kill orbiting threats and said the radar gives more time to plan retaliatory strikes. The address capped a two day trip through several states and British Columbia.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Johnson
United States
State Capitol
Montana
Washington
Oregon
California
British Columbia
Sen
Barry M. Gold
Warm embrace as Thurmond joins GOP in Greer rally
Barry Goldwater welcomed former Democrat J. Strom Thurmond into the Republican Party at an airport rally near Greer, predicting party realignment and praising Thurmond as a future president. The longtime conservatives had not previously appeared together since Thurmond renounced the Democrats.
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Barry Goldwater
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Goldwater
Greer
S.C
Thurmond
Democratic Party
UPI
Senate
J. Strom Thurmond
Republican Party
Arizona
Shreve
Grand Jury Weighing Gambling Legislation in California
Los Angeles grand jury hears witnesses urging state law to let local communities regulate gambling games like panguingui. Foreman James T. Blacklock says recommendations will go to the Legislature and other juries, with fears of increased underworld activity if local authority is weakened. A cutch fire suspect tied to panguingul arouses concern. Sheriff Pitchess says no national syndicate involved locally.
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Timony
James T. Blalock
Thomas C. Lynch
West Hollywood
Peter Pitchess
Los Angeles
Variable clouded day with northerly winds in 15 to 25 mph
Today's high near 90 degrees with low 62. Yesterday reached 95 and 66. Noontime humidity about 12 percent. Sunrise at 6 25, sunset at 6 24.
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Bryn Armstrong
SUN
Marcel Marceau
Hank Greenspun
Vegas
Sheriff's Office
Paul Virgil Mathis
Jefferson Sr
John E. Lane
Commission
Lane
S. 1St St
Phil Mirabelli
Reed Whipple
Harry Levy
Ed Fountain
Oran Grayson
Houston
Tex
Loraine McMurray
UPI Telephoto
Ann Landers Bridge
Popenoce
Moiher
Entertainment
I3 Financial
Paul Price
Ralph Pear Society
Sundial
Ene
Syivia Porter Ee
Polly Possum
Cashier's Cage
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