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    Strip Hotel Celebrates ?╟ Sweet- 16th?╟╓ The Sands celebrates its ?╟úSweet 16th?╟Ñ anniversary this weekend, with an elaborate schedule of events for more than 700 guests and celebrities H a three-day gala celebra- tion, beginning Thursday. The anniversary festival has be- come one of the top social events in Las Vegas each year, as guests from 46 states and 4 foreign countries converge on the hotel. THE FESTIVITIES start Thursday night with a wel- coming ?╟úHalo-Halo?╟Ñ (luau). On Friday night the traditional Anniversary . Show, presented by show producer Jack Entrat- ter, will be staged in the Copa Room, Danny Thomas, who opened the hotel on December 15th, 1952, as the Sands first star and is making his 16th consecutive anniversary ap- pearance in this special show, will be starred, along with Sammy Davis, Jr., the current Sands star. The Sands Inner Circle will j I present a luncheonrfashion show j ! Friday afternoon in the Copa; Room, featuring ?╟úDesigns for | the Modern Woman?╟Ñ by famed j California couturier Manning j Silver, a lavish formal Anni- ljversary Ball tops off the cele- ; bration Saturday night in the | j Sands Grand Ballroom. ?· Las Vegas Review-Journal Thursday, Dec. 12, 1968