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...Corp. in February, he vowed to make Hilton a leader of the $20 billion U.S. gaming industry. Bollenbach hit the jackpot with just one roll of the dice last week, when Hilton agreed to acquire Bally Entertainment in a $2 billion stock swap that creates the world's largest casino company. "Big guys win in any consolidating industry," Bollenbach says...
...club attempts to build a social focus as well by hosting three dances and six study breaks each year. This year the club organized an Asian casino night featuring Asian games of chance...
Neither flashy nor gregarious, he makes few speeches and cuts few ribbons, and his wife Janet makes many of her own clothes. Voinovich is pro-life, deeply pro-business and anti-casino gambling. He was the first Governor to endorse Dole. But he is not afraid of him: two weeks ago, he stunned Dole insiders by criticizing Dole's proposed repeal of the 4.3 [cent] gas-tax increase of 1993, saying the rollback distracted from the real issue of the deficit. Dole took the punch in stride, noting wryly to an aide that Voinovich "must have raised taxes." Indeed...
...week the outrageous Mr. Stupak unveils his outsize, outlandish, outer-space vision in an orgasmic burst of fireworks and flackery. The fourth tallest building in the U.S. (fifth, if you count the World Trade Center twice), the Stratosphere opens with 1,500 rooms and 97,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and a promenade with a handsomely designed World's Fair theme. By year's end Stupak hopes to have completed an additional 1,000 rooms, a retail mall, a giant pool and a King Kong-size gorilla ride--a 70-ft.-high mechanical ape that will climb...
...tense, excit-place. Stupak, a high school dropout, landed in Las Vegas in 1972. He cruised along in the town's minor leagues with Vegas World until 1989, when the Sahara, just a block away, quadrupled the size of its sign and moved it closer to Stupak's casino, tempting his customers away. Stupak wanted the one-upman's revenge. The Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, the towers in Tokyo and Sydney, Australia, were all profitmaking monuments, he noted. A similar structure--but bigger, of course--would be his answer to modern Vegas' edifice complex...