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I agree.5-19-55 bedroom - a moment, and the sound of a second jackpot. Never mind that once a machine has hit a jackpot, it's supposed to be empty. Whenever these two hold hands, there?╟╓s money* Maria forgets all about her dignity - she wants to try this luck where it will count, And so begins the wildest night of Maria?╟╓s life. She and Chuck move from club to club, from gambling room to gambling room - betting, holding hands, and winning. The news of.this lucky streak spreads like wildfire through Las Vegas. .Everyone wants to be partners with them. Odd charac- ters start following them, betting with them, so that by the time they reach their peak -at the Hew Frontier - they?╟╓re totally sur- rounded by people. It?╟╓s wrecking the club's business - there is no gambling going on at all, except at Chuck band Maria's table ?╟÷ and at that table, unfortunately for the house - no one loses. During all this, something has been happening to Maria. She's never been out alone--with a-<man in her life' ?╟÷ maybe that's why she* s falling/ in love kith Chuck. Or maybe it?╟╓s the excite- ment, or maybe it's the few drinks she downs ?╟÷ her first. But whatever it is, it isn't doing her much good. Chuck has his mind on nothing but gambling. If he sees Maria'-at all, it's not as a girl - it's as a large:walking rabbit's foot. He even calls her Bunny. As long as she feels it's only because he's engrossed in the gambling, Maria can take this. But when Kelly, an entertainer at the Silver Slipper, enters the.picture and Chuck immediately forgets all about the gambling -- why, that's & horse of a differ- ent colop, Kelly i s/"making a big fuss ever Chuck because hep boss., the owner of the Silver Slipper, would like to pot him away from the roulette wheel before heffand his hundred-odd partners break