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I agree.page five Slot machines are omnipresent, in drug stores, stations, even in super markets where a jackpot might pay the grocery bill* It is estimated that 3 out of 5 local-ites put some of their change into the slots before leaving the store. "If we hit, ?╤fe buy a steak", the housewives will tell you. In one of the casinos, a sprightly matron admitted winning five jackpots on several different nickle machines. "Forty bucks...not bad for an afternoon's work", she chirped. The regulars, she explained, get to know which machines are repeaters, and haunt the right spots at the right time. Some of the respectable lookihg middle aged women hire out as shills in the casinos. Pay is $1 an hour, and it is much steadier work than baby sitting. "Women are making gambling", Las Vegans tell you. "The amount they bet is peanuts, but it's their influence that counts". Entrepreneurs shrewdly figure that if a women wins a few jackpots, she won't be so hard on hubbie if he wants to gamble away a ducat or two. Las Vegas would like to have women regard gambling as a recreating, not a vice, a frolic, rather than a fever. After all, the Bosses point out, Roulette is just a lucky number set-up like Bingo, and that's permitted everywhere* And Black Jack should be no worse than poker. Judging from the vast "family trade", which brought money into the casino tills to the tune of $ii3>000,000 gross revenue in ??f>3, and a total minimum in tourist revenue of 1188,01*8,337, the Big Brains' whitewashing job of the more sinister aspects, has been highly successful* "Vive les Dames11, they say, and may they, like Old Man River, "Just Keep rolling along". c ^