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Freeman PUBLIC RELATIONS 11/1?½ Mr* Jo?½ Liss c/o Serb Sussan Wide, Vide World HBC-TV Rockefeller Plasm Hew York City, Hew York Pear Joe, lb?½ following are fast?½ and figures on the Sands wbieb wight help you in preparation of material for the "Wide, Wide World** program on December 4th. 1 am still waiting be hear from Herb regarding Sinatra*?╜ request, but I am sending yea this material in the hep?½ everything works out alrights 1, The Sands was opened Hecember 18, 1982, built at cost of $4,800,000. 2* Present worth, eeostlag land and business, is $15,000,000. 3. lbs Sands is top taxpayer among Las Vegas resort hotels, and State huces on slot machines and games alone is $214,000 annually. 4. Hally operating expense is (21,100 - $14,000 of which is for payroll alone. 5. The Sands employs697 employees, 81% of whom are married, with an average of two children per family. 6. Sands serves 915 free meals to its employees daily, or a total of nearly 39,000 a month, 7. Cost of entertainment in Copa Room and lounge is $2,800,000 per year. 8. Lounge music alone, featuring an average of 6 musical outfits working daily around the clock, averages $8,000 weekly. 9. Sine?½ its opening, the Sands has been visited by 7,715,000 people who have passed through all of its entrances. An average of oao person every 3 seconds enters the main entrance. BEVERLY HIllS, CAL. f449 SOUTH BEVERLY DRIVE ?╟≤ CRESTVIEW 6-4326