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...other gaming companies that are planning to open casinos in Atlantic City. Applicants will now get especially close and careful scrutiny, and many openings will be delayed. This may well put a temporary crimp in the earnings and stock prices of such companies as Bally, Caesars World and Golden Nugget. As for Resorts, the betting on the Boardwalk is that the commission will vote as it has in the past: 4 to 1 in favor of a license...
Counting their Malibu Beach place, the Nelsons now have three residences, but Willie's true home is still the road. He travels 250 days a year, crisscrossing the country from bastions of the Bible Belt to glittering emporiums like Las Vegas' Golden Nugget, with forays to outposts like New Jersey's Meadowlands stadium, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, where he recently played before a youthful crowd of 62,000 (most of them fans of the headline act the Grateful Dead). He carries with him his "family" of 25 musicians, technicians and hangers-on, who use nicknames...
Such problems have not been encountered by Golden Nugget Inc., of Las Vegas, which proposes building a new $75 million high-rise casino-hotel on the site of an old stucco motel. Golden Nugget's hard-driving president, Stephen Wynn, last month slipped into the motel wearing sandals and a T shirt. When the owner quoted an $8.5 million selling price, Wynn replied: "I'll give you a million now and the rest in 24 hours." Wynn told reporters that the owner was so surprised "he almost dropped dead." Also scrambling to open casinos are Playboy Enterprises, which...
...Finding gold is like playing blackjack in Reno-it's a sport and a game of chance," says James Manion, 29, an unemployed Sacramento warehouseman. He claims to have found two nuggets last month worth $1,500. In search of more, he put on scuba gear and spent four hours under water one Sunday, searching the Merced River near Mariposa with his dredge. On the family's pontoon raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed...
Broadway is in a phenomenal bull market, racking up the largest box office take in its history. The rich variety of the season pans out with two gold-nugget dance musicals, A Chorus Line and Chicago...