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Given the size of the field, bettors needed a slide rule and a Ouija board to make any sense out of the odds. Eastern Fleet, for example, finished ninth in the Flamingo and then a few weeks later won the Florida Derby against substantially the same field. After running a woeful seventh in the Wood Memorial, Bold and Able won the Stepping Stone at Churchill Downs by three lengths. California-bred Unconscious, the betting favorite at post time, was unbeaten this year until an Eastern upstart named Jim French defeated him in the Santa Anita Derby. Impetuosity startled even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Gunner Makes History | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...International Leisure Corp., which is controlled by Millionaire Kirk Kerkorian, bought the Flamingo and built the 1,519-bedroom International Hotel. Earnings more than doubled last year to $6.5 million, but the company's stock plummeted from a 1969 high of 64 to last week's 13¾.* Dragged down in part by the dismal image shared by many casino-owning companies, it also had troubles with the SEC. Last year International Leisure needed audited financial statements going back to 1964 for a proposed stock offering. Company officers said that they could not supply the figures because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Run of Bad Luck in Gambling Stocks | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...trip to Las Vegas is enough to restore your faith in the old values. LADIES MUST WEAR BATHING HATS AND SWIMSUIT TOPS, reads the sign by the Flamingo Hotel pool. Where else in the U.S. can you still find big bands, a 49? breakfast, and a bellhop who says: "Why don't you just relax, sir, while I unpack your bags?" How many other cities the size of Las Vegas (pop. 290,000) can boast 143 churches and 159 Boy Scout troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LAS VEGAS: THE GAME IS ILLUSION | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...fans really want to unbutton is their emotions. "That's as far as it goes," he insists. "If I really went after a girl in the theater, I'm sure she'd run a mile." These days, some people find that hard to believe. At the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Jones launched into / Want a Woman, and a chic brunette leaped atop a table and offered herself. Part of the act? Perhaps. Another woman tossed her room key onto the stage. If that was part of the act, her husband knew nothing about it: red-faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Ladies' Man | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Ladies' Man | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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