Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Counting their Malibu Beach place, the Nelsons now have three residences, but Willie's true home is still the road. He travels 250 days a year, crisscrossing the country from bastions of the Bible Belt to glittering emporiums like Las Vegas' Golden Nugget, with forays to outposts like New Jersey's Meadowlands stadium, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, where he recently played before a youthful crowd of 62,000 (most of them fans of the headline act the Grateful Dead). He carries with him his "family" of 25 musicians, technicians and hangers-on, who use nicknames...
Southern Florida's Gold Coast, a narrow strip of sun-drenched sand and aging hotels that stretches north from Miami Beach, has fallen on bad times: the beaches have been slipping into the Atlantic and the tourists are slipping north to Disney World and south to Caribbean casinos. So some of the area's businessmen have been pressing hard for the legalization of casino gambling, a matter voters will decide in a Nov. 7 referendum...
...last month, Florida news organizations have paid or pledged some $175,000 to No Casinos Inc., the principal antigambling lobby. Big spenders included the St. Petersburg Times, Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union, the Chicago Tribune Co. (Orlando Sentinel Star, Fort Lauderdale News), the Cox Newspapers (Miami News, Palm Beach Post and Times), the Tampa Tribune and Wometco Enterprises (Miami's WTVJ-TV-each of which gave $25,000. The Knight-Ridder chain's Miami Herald, largest paper in the state, gave...