Las Vegas Weekend Tourists and the Gambling Desert
Las Vegas draws twenty million yearly to the Strip with its dozen great hotel casinos promising escape and excess. The town locks in gamblers with no clocks and few doors, catering to high rollers and show folk while priests and pawnshops coexist with nightlife, divorce, and the lure of winnings.
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Las Vegas
Desert Inn
Tropicana
Stardust
Boulder Dam
Hoover Dam
Frank Sinatra
Ella Fitzgerald
Don Rickles
Nevada
Idle farmland issue in proposed emergency bill
Washington UPI reports a Senate House conference panel will delay final action on an emergency farm bill until early April. The measure contemplates idling up to 46 million acres and raising grain and cotton support prices by 20 to 30 percent. Officials warn the plan could fuel food inflation and risk double digit increases.
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Washington
UPI
Senate House
White House Council On Wage and Price Stability
Senate
Council
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
House Agriculture
Thomas Foley
D-Wash
Talmadge
America
Congress
Conservatives back Reagan for 1980 presidential race
Conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference named Ronald Reagan their top pick for president in 1980 with 611 votes, followed by Rep. Phil Crane. The poll, released by the American Conservative Union, also showed Jesse Helms and Paul Laxalt receiving notable support, while other potential contenders trailed.
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Washington
UPI
California
Ronald Reagan
Phil Crane
Bill
American Conservative Union
Reagan
Crane
Chrysler executives gain big raises despite $50 million loss
Chrysler Corp reported a $50 million fourth quarter loss while top executives received average pay raises of about 30 percent in 1977. Chairman John J. Riccardo led with a $69,019 rise to $314,852, and President Eugene Cafiero climbed $65,963 to $284,713. Bonuses fell to under one third of 1976 levels.
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Detroit
UPI
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
John J. Riccardo
Eugene A. Cafiero
R.K. Brown
G.H. Gillespie
Gillespie
Riccardo
Cafiero
Hull man sues over razed oceanfront house destruction
Joseph R. Germaine, of Hull, files a Plymouth County Superior Court civil suit seeking 86 000 to rebuild his two story 18 room oceanfront home that was demolished after the February blizzard. He alleges a mistake by Hull officials and questions the demolition justification while the town defends its actions.
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Hull
Mass
UPI
Joseph R. Germaine
Oceanside
Plymouth County Superior Court
Germaine
New England
Boston
Quincy
New
Massachusetts
Stanley MacLeod
MacLeod
Haskell Lampke
Kodak to Appeal Antitrust Award Reach in Amatuer Market
Eastman Kodak Co faces a nearly 113 million antitrust damages verdict won by Berkey Photo Inc. in New York federal court. Kodak plans appeals on both liability and damages, asserting the court misapplied the law while maintaining its innovations did not violate antitrust rules. The same eight woman two man jury previously found Kodak liable for monopolizing the amateur market.
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New York
UPI
Eastman Kodak Co
Berkey Photo Inc
Kodak
Rochester
N.Y
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Desert Paradise
By Stephen Longstreet
Richard Anthony Crowley
Vegas
Liberty Hall
Carson City
Mint Hotel
Stephen Longstreet
Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Foley
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Farm Strike Movement
Conference Committee
Dole
Carter
ACU
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Paul Laxalt
R-Nev
Rkan
Richard Schweiker
R-Pa
Texas
John B. Connally
James Buckley
R-N.y
Gerald Ford
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Robert Ray
Iowa
Phyllis Schlafly
Liberty Walgreen
Liberty St. Morris
Free Spirit Electronics
S. Broadway
Coal City
Preston Douglas
Dale McLuckie
Jack Frost
Morris Dry Cleaners
Brandt
Jack Corbitt
The
Morris
N. Division St
Morris Eagle Shopping
Eagles Lodge
Morris Aerie No
Hanson Band
South Seas
Bahamas
Virgin Ocean
Paradise
Stocking Island Beach
Miami
Ft. Lauderdale
Nassau
U.S
Fla
Miami-Dade County
Canada
Peaces
Borge Town
Exuma
Elizabeth Harbour
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State
Zip
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