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...earnings-an average of 19% a year, compounded, for more than two decades-mainly by mass-merchandising its casinos and shows. Last year it spent $36 million on promotion and brought in more than a quarter of a million patrons by bus, mostly from nearby California. Acknowledges President Lloyd Dyer: "We are the Safeway of the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Taking the Risk Out of Gambling | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...waters. Newfs are also strong swimmers whose webbed front paws arc out in a powerful breast stroke: no ministroke dog paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with a line from a vessel foundering on the Nova Scotia coast, helping rescuers haul passengers and crew to safety. Newfoundlands are still used as lifeguards on beaches in France. Their fitness for such work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preserving Ancient Skills | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...Savo Island gave the U.S. Navy one of the worst beatings in its history and left Marines on Guadalcanal stripped of support. A year later, the island and its airstrip were dramatically saved-a rescue made famous by Richard Tregaskis in his book Guadalcanal Diary (1943) and by Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn, et al., in the movie version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: W. W. II: Up Front and Back Home | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Prehistoric Skeletons. Lloyd Hezekiah, director of the renowned Brooklyn Children's Museum, which began in 1899 and this past May moved out of temporary quarters in a renovated pool hall and into a free-form $4 million building, calls children's museums "theaters for learning." Showmanship and pedagogy are blended together to create exhibits designed to captivate children on their own level. Instead of being locked away in glass cases, objects ranging from prehistoric skeletons to 19th century dolls are meant to be touched, tapped or even taken apart to discover what lies within. A model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Theaters for Learning | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services empire, built with the assistance of Switzerland's loose banking laws -and in part with that of the banks themselves. In 1974 the Union Bank of Switzerland lost $56 million in foreign-exchange speculations, and the Lugano branch of Britain's Lloyd's Bank dropped $89 million in similar dealings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Less Go-Go in Switzerland | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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