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...last summer's declining stock market, the shares of companies that own casinos in Las Vegas rose as high as gamblers' hopes. They have faded just as fast. A combination of boardroom battles, rumors of underworld links and Government investigations, reports TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood from Las Vegas, have tarnished the investment luster of the gambling industry. The downward slide of casino companies' stocks has left many investors feeling as though they had fed the family fortune into a one-armed bandit...
...disease-scare headline of the week was that pigeons carry a virus which can cause virus pneumonia. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Army Lieuts. David C. Levinson and John Gibbs and Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph T. Beardwood Jr. reported six pneumonia cases definitely traced to pigeons-two had handled the birds and four lived in neighborhoods where they would easily breathe particles from the birds' excreta in dust...