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...white van pulled up to the back entrance of Harvey's Resort Hotel-Casino in Stateline, Nev., about 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Out climbed two men in white coveralls who unloaded a gray, steel crate, with a small box on top, shrouded in plastic that was stamped IBM. The men carefully made their delivery to the casino's second-floor executive offices and departed...
Just in case the bomb went off, city authorities evacuated 3,000 people from Harvey's eleven floors and from nearby houses. The windows at Harrah's, across the street from Harvey's, were boarded up. But life went on almost normally in Stateline, a community of seven casinos and 1,500 residents that is just a roll of the dice from the California border. Even at Harrah's, gamblers milled around the roulette wheels and card and dice tables...
Casino Owner Harvey Gross, 75, anted up $3 million in $100 bills and sent it by helicopter early the next morning to a rendezvous point. Once there, the chopper's pilot received new instructions from the extortionists to head for a strobe light flashing along a highway in northern California. He did so, fruitlessly hovered for half an hour looking for the signal and then flew back to Stateline...
...Chameleons get a maximum effect from a minimum number of words. Throughout these 14 pieces, the reader learns just how busy and varied Capote's life is. His range of acquaintances is not only vast but spooky. "I know Sirhan, and I knew Robert Kennedy, I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy," he says, explaining that he met Oswald in Moscow just after he defected...
...quasi records: Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies walked and then stole his way around the bases a few games ago, becoming the first National League player to do that since Harvey Hendrick of Brooklyn...