Las Vegas Opinion: Entertainment, Money, and Moral Tradeoffs
The author criticizes Las Vegas for thriving on Americans seeking easy gains. He notes locals work hard while visitors are drawn by signs and temptations. Celebrities perform at casinos but are ordinary to the writer, who skewers the city’s lure and retailing of gambling.
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Las Vegas
America
George Carlin
Dennis Blair
Bally’s
Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert
Sahara
Vic Damone
Diahann Carroll
Arthur Godfrey
Ugly Las Vegas mood shines in Mirage visit
Andy Rooney laments Las Vegas a monumentally tasteless spectacle led by The Mirage with a front waterfall turned volcano. He notes crowds, a tropical enclosure, white tigers, and a casino culture where luck alternates between loss and small wins, concluding gambling rarely pays off overall.
Date Book May 29 1990 Pot day of 1990 and spring
Today notes the 149th day of 1990 and the 71st day of spring. Birthdays listed include Patrick Henry GK Chesterton Bob Hope John F Kennedy Al Unser Ene Davis. Moon phase details show between the May 24 new moon and May 31 first quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Henry
GK. Chesterton
Bob Hope
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
al Unser
Ene Davis
Dunkirk Evacuations as German Planes Bomb Harbor
German warplanes attack Dunkirk harbor and beaches as British warships and private boats evacuate Allied soldiers to England. Hitler orders northwestern France tank forces to pivot south to confront the remaining French army.
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Dunkirk
England
Hitler
France
Grobniks Brush With Privacy and False Alarm Fire
Slats Grobnik faces city property damage and disorderly conduct charges after a misread fire scare and a thrown softball trophy. The ACLU steps in arguing Mrs Grobnik privacy intrusion merits defense on constitutional grounds.
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Motorola
ACLU
Slats Grobnik
Slats
Wisconsin
Harvard Law School
Supreme Court
Iron Overload Health Hazard and Its Treatments
An 81 year old asks about excess iron from diet and supplements. Iron overload, or hemochromatosis, deposits in liver heart and glands causing cirrhosis bronze skin diabetes and heart failure. Treatment lowers iron intake or removes iron via phlebotomy or chelation therapy.
Crossword Puzzle Across Clues From Today's Paper
Across clues include No longer Marines Wily Knievel Direction Small Salacious Ancient musical instrument Author Fleming Bi plus one Collega de Compresse Compass point Art deco illustrator Actress Anderson Antenna Satanic City in Oklahoma Sault Make Skin problem Spiders homes Sounds of disapproval Dropped derful Lite Fish Wooded mound Glide on snow Mao t ing A Gershwin Ratlove Small songbird Landing boat Hidden obstacle
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Fleming
Anderson
Oklahoma
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Rudy
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