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...Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) and U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass), the jackpot seems to lie in Las Vegas and Puerto Rico, where cocktail parties and hotel-hopping this year have helped to fatten their campaign piggy-banks...
James E. Nave a Las Vegas veterinarian who attended Sen. Kennedy's fund-raiser, says that though he does not agree with Kennedy's views-especially on health care--he enjoyed meeting a Kennedy in person...
Although a USA Today article in April indicated that casino executives were paying large sums of money to political candidates in order to prevent the passage of a four percent federal tax on casino revenues many Las Vegas entrepreneurs interviewed say they were not lobbying Sen. Kennedy on this issue...
...senator's Las Vegas event was co-sponsored by Dr. Elias F. Ghannem, A prominent local physician, and Sloan, vice president and general counsel for Circus Circus, a company which operates several hotels and casinos...
...hard to imagine a piece of advice less likely to influence Streisand. Even those who find her a maddening perfectionist admit that few performers work harder. A musician who played in her Las Vegas show logged in 60 hours of orchestra rehearsal time, and says Streisand, unlike most singers, was present for almost every minute. Lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who with her partner and husband Alan helped write the script for Streisand's stage show, scoffs at her reputation as a difficult diva. "Barbra never says, 'That's good enough.' People who don't understand or appreciate this process might find...