Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peeling-away process has already started as two former key Hughes aides have been questioned in pretrial investigations into the secret life and death of the hermit billionaire. Their evidence will be used in the first major trial, scheduled to begin Jan. 10 in a Nevada state court. The trial concerns the so-called Mormon will, a handwritten document that some claim is Hughes' last testament. More layers will fall away as Texas officials press an investigation into the legal domicile of the wandering billionaire in hopes of collecting as much as $300 million in inheritance taxes...
Milwaukee's Nevada Skuzzbomb puts it differently: "It's the best thing that ever happened...
Sanctioning of the sometime sin has been sweeping the nation over the past decade. In the early 1960s, outside of Nevada, state-countenanced gambling was almost entirely confined to track betting. Today, 44 states have some form of legalized gambling and the kinds are growing. Legislation to permit new and expanded types of wagering?from jai alai to bingo, dog racing and card rooms ?is pending in 37 states. A few states have even invaded the fertile field of numbers betting, long the exclusive and profitable province of organized crime. Two states, Delaware and Montana, have joined Nevada...
...even be argued that betting, within reason, has redeeming social value. Felicia Campbell, a University of Nevada behaviorist who earned her Ph.D. with a thesis on "Gambling Mythologies and Typologies" (and was once married to a croupier), insists that gambling permits many people?especially the elderly?to "lose themselves in the action of the moment." She adds: "Even though the final result is often negative, it's a positive impulse. The peak experience is almost more important than winning. When he grabs the dice, a blue-collar worker is in control of his destiny. For the businessman, gambling...
...controls on gambling," says Dr. Custer. "We can minimize the casualties." He urges that: 1) the states should not permit around-the-clock gambling (as in Nevada), 2) nobody under 21 should be allowed to gamble ("Virtually all the compulsive gamblers I've treated began gambling as adolescents"), and 3) state betting operations should not promote gambling as they do today. One of the most "addictogenic" factors, in Custer's view, is the easy credit that is available through a bookie ? a strong argument for state-run gambling, in which credit is hard to get and tightly monitored...