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    Page 59 LAS VEGAS - ITEM 27 LAS VEGAS., LS OF THE -DESERT AND THE MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE. CAMERA IS ON TOP OF THE SANDS SIGN. ... in an old desert where the echo of "Old Susannah?╟Ñ Is lost in the mountains?? An old Spanish guitar ?√ß>, , PAN DOWN TO FAR OFF EDGE OF THE STRIP, NOT QUITE IN LAS VEGAS YET. ... once plunked along this road. A road through a desert. A road where your nearest neighbor was the howl of a coy- ote. A road where the only traffic was the track of a rattler through the sand* But now it's a ..* PAN DOWN TO THE STRIP. HOTELS AND THEIR SIGNS, HEAVY TRAFFIC, PEOPLE, ETC. CUT TO: ..* road of pleasure. Through the desert was bulldozed a long shot they call "The Strip".' Three miles of entertainment, "The Broadway of the Sagebrushl" It was once an old Spanish trail