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That, however, is just what a small but determined group of Floridians would like to do. Advised by Public Relations Whiz Sanford Weiner, 49, the skilled promoter who helped legalize gambling in Atlantic City, N.J., a dozen hotel owners and businessmen in decaying Miami Beach are launching a drive to collect the signatures of 255,653 voters-enough to put legalized gambling casinos on a statewide ballot in November. Says Leon Manne, president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce: "Gambling will turn the economy around faster than anything. It is the quickest solution...
...ironic, therefore, that the hotelmen are now looking to legalized gambling for their salvation. Sanford Weiner, the publicist who helped push through the referendum in New Jersey that will bring craps and slot machines to Atlantic City, has been retained to head the effort, even though Governor Reubin Askew has vowed to fight such an idea. "Gambling would change our image overnight," says Beach Tourist Chief Cohen. "It would combat the feeling that there's nothing to do here." Agrees Joel Gray, executive vice president of the Doral Hotel: "Gambling can return Miami Beach to a point of prime...
...Sanford A. Kowal, Carroll's attorney, said last week he has only spoken to a "man claiming to be Carroll who said he was calling from Florida...
...gruff but likable Lou Grant, who lost his newsroom job at WJM-TV, cut the mustard on a daily newspaper? Can gimpy Fred Sanford dance out of a ghetto junkyard and onto a variety-show stage? Will a web-footed survivor from Atlantis surface as this season's TV hero...
Pryor's colorful vulgarity found an S.R.O. audience, not in Las Vegas but on the concert hall circuit. Writing, he dis covered, came naturally. He wrote part of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, several segments of Sanford and Son, and parts of two Lily Tomlin specials. Acting came just as naturally. If he never said another funny word, Pryor could undoubtedly make it as a major Hollywood actor. Says Michael Schultz, director of Greased Lightning: "He can do the same scene ten different ways-all of them right...