Standing Up For Las Vegas

December, 1976

Standing Up for Las VegasA time and a place for everythingThe sailing of the Mayflower to colonize the New World was financed by a lottery in England. So much for our Puritan heritage.One of the 12 Apostles was chosen by lot, or lottery, and it wasn't Judas.George Washington may never nave told a lie, but he gambled on anything, anyplace, any time. The night he crossed the Delaware to surprise the Hessians may have been the one night during the Revolutionary War that he didn't play cards or shoo...