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Died. Velma ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston, 65, redoubtable leader of the campaign to preserve wild-horse herds in the West; apparently of cancer; in Reno. Johnston's lobbying efforts resulted in the 1959 "Wild Horse Annie Law," a federal statute prohibiting the hunting of wild horses from aircraft and trucks, and the 1971 "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act," which gave the animals further protection. She was president of both WHOA (Wild Horse Organized Assistance Inc.) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros...
...past, the company and Sinatra seemed an ideal match. In addition to its real estate and construction activity, the company owns four major Nevada hotels and casinos: the Sahara and the Mint in Las Vegas, the Sahara Tahoe in Lake Tahoe and the Primadonna in Reno. Sinatra is both a Las Vegas entertainment idol and an entrepreneur. He even held a Nevada gaming license in the early '60s. Evidently impressed by Webb's potential, Sinatra in 1975 quietly began to acquire 420,000 shares, or 5%, of the company's outstanding stock. To finance part...
...afternoon of Feb. 24, Bramlet flew back to Vegas from a one-day trip to Reno. Waiting for him at the airport, TIME has learned, were three men. Bramlet spoke with them briefly, then called union headquarters to tell his daughter Chris that he would be home in 30 minutes. He never got there. Several hours later, Bramlet phoned an official at the Dunes Hotel casino and asked that a $10,000 "personal" payment be made to a gambler. It wasn't, and Bramlet has not been heard from since...
...card identifies him as a preferred customer entitled to a room the hotel holds in reserve) and then proceed to the casino to pick up chips on credit. Although prostitution used to be the quintessential cash-in-advance business, the Cottontail Ranch, a legal brothel between Las Vegas and Reno, posts signs over each of its beds advertising its willingness to take Diners Club, Master Charge or BankAmericard. Some of New York's "massage parlors" accept credit cards too -discreetly billing customers in the name of nearby restaurants that for a fee let the parlors use their card imprinters...
Straight Alcohol. In fact, hazing that inflicts physical or mental abuse is banned by most universities and colleges and several states. But it still goes on to some degree. There have been other deaths. Last year at the University of Nevada at Reno John Davies died after being forced to drink straight alcohol, whisky, vodka and gin, for more than 24 hours by a fraternity called the Sundowners. In New Jersey in 1974 William Flowers, a pledge to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Monmouth College, suffocated in a "grave" he had been forced to dig for himself...