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...Jeanne and Harlan Davis tangled with police at a boite they ran called the Golden Nugget in suburban Los Angeles. There, the cops spied ex-Dancer Jeanne, 36, modeling the lower half of a leopardskin bikini without the upper half. Distressed, they arrested the Davises for violating Section 650½ of the state penal code, a catchall law for moral suasion that forbids any act "which openly outrages public decency." Fined $276 and put on three years' probation, the Davises carried their case to a three-judge panel of California's Second District Court of Appeal, which last...
Although a few speculators had already introduced metal tokens into a few Nevada houses-notably Spark's Nugget and Lake Tahoe's Wagon Wheel -Segel's tokens (usually nickel alloy) began rolling around the state like tumbleweed, are now being shoved into the slots of one-armed bandits in 50 of the state's 70 gambling houses. For the operators, it means more than nostalgia. The coins have proved a source of revenue. Customers have taken such a shine to tokens that instead of cashing them in for a dollar upon leaving, they have begun...
...reply: "Good fences make good nosegays." At the Burpee Co.'s seed counter, pretty salesgirls showed off the new topper snapdragons, which now come in every shade from lavender to orange. Other new seeds for the season: Burpee's new two-tone Whirligig zinnias and a Yellow Nugget marigold (see color pages), a large bloomer meant to last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana, whose petals turn to silver...
Residents of Las Vegas profess to be undisturbed by their town's sincity reputation. They euphemize gambling into "gaming," and stress upbeat touches such as the way Craps Dealer Ralph Hicks ends his trick at The Golden Nugget and rushes off to preside as president of the Western High School P.T.A...
...staffs of their own to search out possible merger mates. They also know that the cigarette manufacturers want to acquire food, beverage or candy firms as a hedge against the cancer scare; last week, for example, P. Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) bought out San Francisco's Golden Nugget Sweets. They are aware that the oil companies yearn to buy into everything from fertilizers to polypropylene toys, and that the food companies are getting together with the beverage firms. National Biscuit, for example, has decided that things might go better with Coca-Cola; last week officials of the two companies...