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...year passed before such palaces as the new Havana Riviera and Capri hotels could be built and before the mob could raise the "nut"-the bankroll behind the chips. But by last month ten Havana casinos were going, most of them profitable from the first roll. Running the Sans Souci casino was a Lansky hood, Santo Trafficante Jr.; at several others Lansky was the boss or named the boss...
...affair between father (David Niven) and daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
Swank & Slot Machines. The 20-story, 400-room Havana Riviera (up to $40 a day for a double room) is a modern-style palace with egg-crate fagades, wall-to-wall marble, a 78-cabaña pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest...
...casino at the Havana Riviera brings the Cuban capital's tony gambling spots to ten, all authorized by free-and-easy laws aimed at making Havana a strong Eastern competitor for the West's Las Vegas. Batista's government lent $6,000,000 toward the $14 million that the hotel cost. Exactly who supplied how much of the rest of the money is a deep secret; the directors include Toronto Hotelman Harry Smith. Edward Levinson of Las Vegas' Fremont, and a Cuban Senator whose brother happens to be a Cabinet minister...
...year in the union cashbox, gradually rising wage minimums set by the government wage board. New industrial investment during the past four years totals $612 million. The civic struggle has caused the tourist business to slump, but four luxury hotels are going up-including the 20-story Havana Riviera and the $22 million Havana Hilton (of which Mujal's Restaurant Workers' Union owns a $9,000,000 chunk). "Without a general strike in Havana," says Mujal, "Castro has no chance. As long as I live, there will be no general strike...