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Despite the air-conditioned comfort of the pine-paneled hearing room in Nassau's Supreme Court building, the rotund witness mopped repeatedly at his ample jowls and bald dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling...
...also doubled the islands' casino tax to $1,000,000 a year, and as a result, Groves last month abruptly closed the gold-papered Monte Carlo gaming room at his luxurious Lucayan Beach Hotel. That leaves Grand Bahama with only the Moorish-style El Casino in operation. In Nassau, the wheels still spin at the sedate Bahamian Club, now run by Eddie Cellini, who along with his brother Dino once ran the casino at Havana's Hotel Nacional for the big-time gambler and Mafia henchman, Meyer Lansky...
Bigger than Beaches. Sir Stafford himself pulled up stakes in Nassau last spring and moved to self-imposed exile in Spain, although he says he still plans to spend a few winter months each year at Waterloo, his home on East...
...price tag. Well what is it, for heaven's sake? Nothing less than their own golf tournament, with the boys and their pals putting up the cash and getting the whole thing named after them. It's all two-bit Nassau, though, compared with what Jackie Gleason, 51, has in mind for 1970: an annual $500,000 Jackie Gleason Open to be played at his $15 million Miami "golf stadium," which will have terraced, three-level walkways beside all fairways and greens to accommodate as many as 36,000 spectators on every hole. Winner's purse...
...York City and adjacent Nassau County, said Haddad, buy meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil) for $18.90 per 1,000, while Georgia's Fulton County (Atlanta) pays $62.40. New York City buys tetracycline at $25.95 a 1,000, but Chicago pays $50, Fulton County $95, while New York's Onondaga County (Syracuse) pays $90 for a slightly different form. The District of Columbia, buying through the Veterans Administration, equals New York's low prices in most cases and betters them in some. The armed forces do at least as well, buying in still greater quantities through the Defense Supply Agency...