Word: slotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Sophomore Mike Desaulniers, the nation's top-ranking college player and Harvard's number-one seed for the second year in a row, bettered opponent Mohtadi in three close games, 16-13, 15-12, 15-11. The Crimson's Mark Panarese, playing in the second slot instead of ailing John Havens, lost to Lennard, 1-3. Ned Bacon grabbed the third match from Canadian Guyatt...
...Indeed, may already be. For the past month Screenvision, the U.S. subsidiary of a French company, has flashed 30-sec. ads, for Seiko watches and Chanel perfumes, on 1,800 screens across the country. Twelve hundred other theaters are now under contract, and Screenvision plans to expand the time slot for commercials to three minutes. A U.S. company, Cinemavision, claims to have signed up another 4,200 theaters for next year. If all 16,000 theaters in the country accept the idea of three minutes of ads, the two firms figure they have potential sales of well over $50 million...
After a dismal showing in the opener last Wednesday night against UMass, Caryn Curry, Harvard's talented floor general, found the touch, putting in 13 points and adding her usual impressive total of assists and rebounds. Forward Hildy Meyers also chipped in ten points from her forward slot...
...minutes later Harvard goalie John Hynes decided to show off to the fans that yes, he is improving. Penn's Mickey Ball had Hynes point blank from left of the slot and fired a wrist shot which Hynes deflected up with his shoulder and then caught before Penn sticks could bat it in. Hynes made 24 saves on the evening and gave up his lowest goal total of the young season...