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Megarich financier Kirk Kerkorian knows how to make a fortune in the glitter mills of Las Vegas and Los Angeles, but can he do it in gritty Detroit? Last week Chrysler said the Beverly Hills investor had accumulated more than 9% of the troubled automaker's stock at an estimated cost of $250 million. Kerkorian met with Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca earlier this month and professed support for the company's management but refused to sign a "standstill" agreement to stop increasing his stake, a Chrysler spokesman disclosed. Girding for a possible takeover bid, Chrysler has strengthened its poison-pill...
...with these people," he says of the new Harvard party crowd. "Before you could go and talk to anyone. They stick to themselves and they're taking it over for themselves. They definitely snub the regulars and don't want to deal with them," says Stowers, a native of Las Vegas...
After 13 years of legal overtime, the contest that began in 1977 between the NCAA and basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, over recruiting violations ended last week in a draw. In an unprecedented reversal, the NCAA lifted the ban it had imposed on the Runnin' Rebels, which would have prohibited the 1990 collegiate champions from defending their title this spring. In exchange, UNLV agreed to forfeit live-TV appearances next season and sit out 1992 postseason games...
...when Caesars Palace sent a luxurious Learjet to fly Brian ("Bo") Bennett to Las Vegas, he must have marveled at how his lot in life had changed. Only three years earlier the youth from the downtrodden ghetto of South Central Los Angeles was stocking shelves in a supermarket. Now, at 23, he was off on the kind of fling casinos reserve for the highest rollers...
Students of White House culture have begun to notice a peculiar strain of what might be called the Las Vegas syndrome. First, UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian turned up in the Oval Office for a Bush handshake. Then Siegfried and Roy, the lion tamers and Strip headliners, also appeared in the President's office. Finally, during a Bush campaign stopover in Rochester, Minn., who should pop out of nowhere to sing the national anthem but Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton. The odd sightings can all be traced to Sigmund Rogich, the President's events coordinator, who grew up dirt...