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...hectic hours of freeloading fun in the public rooms and the gadget-strewn suites (each with its own bar). Upstairs was a great big polynesian-style restaurant, and downstairs was a great big gambling casino; across the street was another casino run by Reno's Bill Harrah and featuring Comedienne Phyllis Diller. Who could ask for anything more...
Everybody, apparently. Harrah-who already runs two casinos along the southern shore of the lake-is reportedly planning to put up a 25-story hotel next to his Tahoe club; ubiquitous Builder Del Webb will soon break ground for a 1,200-room hotel and casino; the Frank Sinatra pack owns an old hotel on the northern side and is aiming to make it ring-a-ding with a 300-room expansion. But it is the southern shore, where the customers from California most conveniently meet the casinos of Nevada, that is teeming with neon civilization...
...operations are under way. Attorney Evers and Sacramento Newspaper Publisher Jim McClatchy founded a Tahoe Improvement and Conservation Association in 1957, and in 1960 a Lake Tahoe Area Council was organized, with representation from both states and all shades of interest-including nature-loving conservationists and action-loving Bill Harrah. In order to save the basin, they all realized, there would have to be planning and zoning that cut across and coordinated the jurisdictions of the two states and five counties...
...protective company of Dude Ranch Owner Harry Drackert and his wife, Mrs. Rockefeller turned up at Harrah's Club on Lake Tahoe's South Shore, at Squaw Valley and in Eugene's, one of Reno's top restaurants. She is rarely recognized; at Harrah's she spent 30 minutes with the one-armed bandits before anyone took notice...
High Roller. At Harrah's, outside consultants are called in to study specialized problems such as transportation; a talent scout combs the show business world for new acts. (Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers...