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Edwards' creao, Laissez les bon temps rouler, often takes him to the casinos of Vegas and Monte Carlo, and one of the main goals of his current term has been to legalize casino gambling. Questions about a large gambling debt led to the governor's indictment on racketeering charges three...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Louisiana Politics: Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler to a Stop | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

The last time we saw Paris, we saw Sam Thomas, who is as native to Louisiana as a muskrat, dancing at Regine's, whither he had ventured from the George V, where he had a suite that he used as an office to organize a dinner at Versailles for 300...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: We Got the Hook in 'Em Now, Bubba | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Only the Soviets had thought Hess was worth guarding like a latter-day Count of Monte Cristo. British, French and U.S. authorities had long been willing to release him on humanitarian grounds. Keeping the 109-year-old prison open for one inmate was also extremely costly: West Berlin and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudolf Hess: 1894-1987: The Inmate of Spandau's Last Wish | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Despite the dogs' bloody reputation, owners such as Laue insist that purebred pit bulls have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Time Bombs on Legs | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

As his life drew near its sordid end, Liu Yong, 22, took to wearing nothing but black. In perhaps a more telling symptom of his decadence, the engineering student and former Communist Youth League officer read the existentialist works of Sartre and Nietzsche, wrote solipsistic essays and handed out calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Being and Nothingness | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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