Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend, Resorts International's casino in Atlantic City, has been a greenback gusher, grossing $119.3 million-a take bigger than that of any Nevada gambling house. But last week it seemed as if the well might run dry. New Jersey Attorney General John Degnan issued a 115-page report urging that Resorts be denied a permanent gambling license when its temporary permit expires...
Resorts President I.G. ("Jack") Davis attacked the report, contending that it is a rehash of old, unfounded charges. It accused the company of ties to organized crime, faulty accounting, inadequate information about gambling junkets and the purchase of a key employee's silence with a ten-year, $350,000 consulting contract...
...American Exchange, Resorts had been a Wunderstock that had risen as high as $69.50 a share this summer. But after the report came out, it dropped almost eight points, closing the week at $23.62. The shares did not take more of a drubbing because even a negative ruling from the Casino Control Commission, which plans to begin hearings next month on granting Resorts a permanent license, could put several hundred million dollars in the company treasury. If Resorts lost its license, a state-appointed "conservator" would sell the casino and turn over the money to Resorts. The sale price would...
Even while this new method is being developed to treat kidney disease, thousands of Americans may be unwittingly bringing it upon themselves. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Thomas Murray and Martin Goldberg of Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Hospital report that as many as 5% of all instances of kidney failure in the U.S.-some 8,000 new cases a year-may be caused by common over-the-counter and prescription analgesics. The usual culprit: a mixture of aspirin and either phenacetin or acetaminophen, ingredients found in many well-known painkillers as well...
Javers had filed his initial report to the Chronicle from San Juan, P.R. A day later, while he was recovering from surgery at the Andrews Air Force Base hospital outside Washington, a Bantam editor was on the phone proposing a deal. Within hours, the Chronicle had assembled a team of 15 reporters to work with Javers and Co-Author Marshall Kilduff, who had been investigating Peoples Temple activities in California for two years...