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...Queens (N.Y.) College, who studies sexual mores: "If you make your first sexual contact in a public toilet or in the back of a truck where the guy next to you may be a cop ready to arrest you or a psychopath waiting to hack off your genitals, Leather Gulch is an ideal ambience...
...Battle at Elderbush Gulch and The Naked Spur. At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday...
Renaissance Midway. With Omni's 470-room hotel, a skating rink, six movie theaters, two office buildings, worthy restaurants and elegant stores, all adjoining a sports coliseum and a convention center-Kroffts' World will go far toward revitalizing a once decrepit section Atlantans remember as Railroad Gulch. One million visitors are expected its first year...
...huge machines used in open-pit operations replaced many miners. Then the machines began digging into Butte itself. First opened just to the south of the city, the ever-growing Berkeley pit has swallowed neighborhoods with names like Dublin Gulch and Sin Town; since 1970, it has devoured most of the city's residential McQueen section. Currently, it is chewing away at downtown Butte. Meanwhile, a second pit, begun in 1973, has destroyed the Columbia Gardens amusement center and the city's only sizable park. With the remaining ore reserves due to run out in a decade...
...scourge of Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun...