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Weiner is nonetheless confident: "If a strong effort is made, we can win." The idea's biggest selling point may be that gambling would be limited to a strip of about 20 miles along Florida's Gold Coast -where the hotelmen and others in a once lucrative tourist market see legalized gambling as their last resort...
...ironic, therefore, that the hotelmen are now looking to legalized gambling for their salvation. Sanford Weiner, the publicist who helped push through the referendum in New Jersey that will bring craps and slot machines to Atlantic City, has been retained to head the effort, even though Governor Reubin Askew has vowed to fight such an idea. "Gambling would change our image overnight," says Beach Tourist Chief Cohen. "It would combat the feeling that there's nothing to do here." Agrees Joel Gray, executive vice president of the Doral Hotel: "Gambling can return Miami Beach to a point of prime...
There have been changes since the contest started in 1921 as a way of extending Atlantic City's summer season. Most noticeably, the slightly risque air that caused hotelmen to withdraw their support in the late '20s gave way in 1937, when Miss America began to get her Goody Two-Shoes image. Only one Negro has ever competed in the final pageant, although the pageant directors of many states now claim to be looking for black candidates. In Alaska, the search is on for a qualified Eskimo...
Most of the blame for the tourism decline belongs to the hotelmen, who during the boom days boosted prices exorbitantly and genially ignored visitors' outraged complaints. Hotel employees did little to help, treating tourists indifferently and often with undisguised ill humor. The hotel workers had little to grumble about; their hourly wages and benefits soared an estimated 143% between 1959 and 1970. During the same period, consumer prices rose...
While U.S. hotelmen build almost entirely for the luxury market abroad, they place less emphasis on ornate decor than on such modern conveniences as escalators and automatic elevators, TV sets in rooms and ice-cube machines in corridors. Construction costs overseas- $30,000 to $40,000 per room -are as high as in many U.S. cities, and few new U.S. hotels abroad match the grand luxe service of the best of the older foreign-owned hotels. But traveling Americans like U.S.-style hotels for their informality, speedy checkin, reliable phone service and fast meals. Europeans, who have been accustomed...