Word: weiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Robert Weiner, staff director of the House Committee on Aging, said yesterday House conferees "plan to stand firm" in opposing all exemptions from the bill raising from 65 to 70 years the age at which employers may force their workers to retire...
...Today's youth take for granted things that the youth of the '60s had to fight for. They don't understand what went on," Weiner said...
...book will be published in the spring of 1979, ten years after Woodstock. "The date is a convenient coincidence," Weiner said...