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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-Stakes Monopoly. Other casino operators are watching closely to see if Circus Circus is a foretaste of what is to come in Las Vegas. Owners are finding that, though gross gambling revenues are still growing (up 14.3% last year), their profits are being cut by what Sarno calls "the spiraling cost of customer attraction." A top entertainer like Frank Sinatra can command $100,000 a week; a production of Fiddler on the Roof costs $70,000 a week...
Youngstown hopes to reopen its schools early next year, when regular taxes again come due, but the board must try again at the polls for an increase that will allow them to stay open. Meanwhile, Youngstown's cantankerous voters inadvertently helped school systems elsewhere in Ohio. School supporters in Akron won a tax increase by waging a highly effective word-of-mouth campaign with the argument "Let's not become another Youngstown...
...rule upon the appeals of Frederick Saterfield and Robert Page Anderson. Both convicted murderers were challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty, and they could hardly have picked a more promising time or place for their plea. Their lawyers could argue with considerable authority that Western society has come to look upon execution as a cruel and unusual form of punishment. And the California court could be expected to listen sympathetically; it has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal in the nation...
...always in a spot of bother, in one political situation or another," says Drake, who is 58. "It's just the way we make our daily bread." Should Drake's plans come a cropper, perhaps through continued Justice opposition to the Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield merger, B.P. promises to have another bash at the U.S. before long...
Died. Francis Taylor, 70, wealthy Beverly Hills art dealer who started his only daughter, Elizabeth, in pictures in 1943 by wangling her the role opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home; in his sleep, apparently of a stroke; in his home in Bel Air, Calif...