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Neon & Sewage. A symbol of Tahoe's troubles is an eleven-story hunk of hardware with anodized aluminum trim called Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort Hotel, which opened for business last week. Three hundred invited guests showed up for 24 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...
...there an embracing civil rights movement that can pursue its objectives irrespective of Negro class structure. Hunter Street, the main drag in black Atlanta, separates a stately complex of Negro colleges from the hectic offices of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The proximity is misleading: Morehouse and the other schools in the Atlanta University system are training Negroes to meet the standards of middle-class participation in American society, while SNCC's field workers are out to change the political and ethical bases of that society...
When the first hectic days were over, the novices would get around to answering Gamal Abdel Nasser's cry for union. At week's end Iraq's thinking was summed up by Foreign Minister Shahib, who proposed a joint meeting of the four "liberated" Arab states (Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria) to "coordinate work among them in various fields with a unionist revolutionary and socialist tendency...
Early in the week, track coach Bill McCurdy had hoped to repeat lest year's sweep of the two contests. Saturday morning, however, the strategic manipulations became much too "hectic," according to captain Ed Hamlin, and McCurdy decided to concentrate on winning the dual meet at Dartmouth...
...main objection to Olivar's insurance business, however, was that it seriously interfered with his recruiting (or persuasion) duties. When the playing season ends, the recruiting season commences, even in the Ivy League. The recruiting season is often more hectic and frantic than the fall months devoted exclusively to football. Olivar's assistants were required to handle recruiting when the chief was in California, and there was a feeling at Yale that they couldn't do a complete job of selling high schoolers on the benefits of New Haven without the head coach...