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...scene took place in Las Vegas' Circus Circus, a new $15 million casino that manages to be gaudy and raucous even by the extravagant standards of the Strip. Inside, aerialists, unicyclists, jugglers, trained dogs and 15 clowns perform their acts right in the gaming room. And if that isn't enough distraction, there is also a carnival-style sideshow with dart games, a coin toss and an electronic shooting gallery for the kiddies. For the grownups, the sideshows are spicier. In one, a nearly nude girl bounces out of a bed and dances a quick Watusi whenever somebody...
Jackpot. Such rowdy Big Top atmosphere is new to Las Vegas, where the winning casino formula has been to pack in the crowds with the lure of big-name entertainers, then leave the customers with nothing else to tempt them but gambling. Jay Sarno, 47, who two years ago opened the garish, pseudo-Roman Caesar's Palace, is trying a new approach. As principal stockholder of Circus Circus, he is counting on the casino's being so different that everybody who visits Las Vegas will have to stop in once out of plain curiosity. And if the carnival...
High-Stakes Monopoly. Other casino operators are watching closely to see if Circus Circus is a foretaste of what is to come in Las Vegas. Owners are finding that, though gross gambling revenues are still growing (up 14.3% last year), their profits are being cut by what Sarno calls "the spiraling cost of customer attraction." A top entertainer like Frank Sinatra can command $100,000 a week; a production of Fiddler on the Roof costs $70,000 a week...
...sooner had the lady arrived in Recife, Brazil, than she was caught in a tangle of traffic. Then, in the middle of a reception at the Palace of Las Princessas, the lights blew and pitched the whole place into darkness. But Queen Elizabeth II, poised as always, went right on receiving guests while servants held glowing candelabra behind her. It was the first visit ever to South America by a reigning British monarch, and the Queen plans ten days in Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years...
...week radio series and billed it as the All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight. Few radio men gave the series much of a chance. They obviously failed to consider all the fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations as the Rock loosed "a brutal shot to the heart, a slamming left and right to the jaw," and dropped the bloodied Manassa Mauler...