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...fuss about the lotteries is only one sign that the U.S. is on a gambling spree; gambling expenditures may have doubled in the past decade. Las Vegas, with its bargain-basement prices for rooms and floor shows and its free round-trip air fares for well-heeled customers, is now getting competition from oases in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. The numbers racket (estimated total revenue: $1.5 billion) was once known as "the black man's stock market"; now it is moving all over town. Perhaps the fastest-growing action is betting on sporting events (estimated total: $2.2 billion...
...week of major milestones for Michigan's Governor George Romney. His 36th wedding anniversary fell on Sunday and his 60th birthday the following Saturday-but Romney didn't have time to make much fuss over them. Putting up in a grey-shingled cottage on the Lake Winnipesaukee estate of his friend Mormon Motel Magnate J. Willard Marriott, he spent four busy days testing the political waters in New Hampshire, well ahead of the state's primary on March 12, 1968. He found the waters at best lukewarm...
...British House of Commons, just before it filled up one day in 1867 for a lively debate on a bill to tax dog owners, a bare quorum bothered to vote on the legislation that created a confederation out of three Canadian colonies. Canadians made no special fuss over the event. Now they are making up for their initial apathy. All year long they have been celebrating their centennial...
...been having their own kind of sport with it. They send the signature home as a souvenir, and in a matchmaking spirit have even mailed a couple of mint specimens to Smith College Freshman Julie Nixon, 17. Except for the holograph hounds, though, the little Lord Jeffreys make no fuss over David. "We have a Cabot at Amherst," explains an insouciant classmate, "and that's as high...
Beneath the almost laughable fuss surrounding the House Armed Services Committee hearings on the draft is a sobering fact: by the time Congress is ready to present the President with a new Selective Service Act, there will be little left resembling the Marshall Commission's laudable recommendations for draft reform. All of the committee members' raging against Stokely Carmichael and all of their prattle about the First Amendment should not obscure the slow erosion of what once seemed a genuine attempt to improve the draft...