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t for JE Points of disccussion on bare bosom shows 1. Since 1952, we have spent a lot of time and money to make Las Vegas the "entertainment capital of the world." This means presenting top shows, with top stars, so that the average visitor here could see more top shows in three days vacation time than he could see in New York or Paris orLondon or Chicago in a month. We induced great personalities like Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene Dietrich and Van Jbhnson as well as the great established names like Sinatra, Danny Thomas and Lena Horne and W to play Las Vegas --- and this star system of shows has paid off because the public appreciates quality for their vacation dollar. Now, suddenly, the liister of Las Vegas as THE only place in the world with star shows and lavish chorus girl productions is darkened by bare bosom shows ----- six years of work could go down the drain if the bare bosom stays in Las Vegas. 2. Las Vegas is a privileged phenomenon ?╟÷ it exists thru the will of the people of Nevada, the finest state in the Union. You can?╟╓t ask your neighbors to let you comeinto their home, then turn their house into a freak burlesque and gaudy, freaky, burlesque spectacle ?╟÷ appealing to visitors , and ignoring the very neighbors who let you open shop. Bnsmxasm Ethically, it?╟╓s stupid ?╟÷ morally, it?╟╓s bad ---- but rather than preach morals and ethics on one hand, and still operate gambling, even though on a clean, high-class, and public level ------ it?╟╓s important to look at it from the common decency and courtesy angle, too. 3. Businesswise, nude shows will soon show themselves to be just a flash in the pan ---- but during that proving period, they can only hurt Las Vegas and the entertainment reputation we have built up here thru long years of investment and promotion. It?╟╓s obvious about the business angle --- sdfc the places that are doing the business and paying their bills are all on one side of the strip, the East side --- and all feature covered chorus girls. The three places doing the nude bit are all on the West side?╟÷ and they may be doing crowds, but business, cold hard cash that pays for the nudes, it about as bares as the shows themselves. Thank God, the nude shows are all on the side of the Strip leading out of town! 4. A real important point is lies inside the idea of showbusiness as the nude shows affect it ----- what kind of incentive or encouragement is left for the pretty young and fresh and nice kids to study dancing and singing, and then to go into chorus girl lines as a start to a movie and TV career? Why should these young kids from nice fafmilies work their heads off on the sime stage with a group of girls whose only talent is pulling a brassiere string? And usually for more money? It's not fair to the new talent we need so badly in this business. And mark this well---you won?╟╓t get a Danny Thomas or a Lena Horne or a Frank Sinatra, each of whom does more business than all three shews nie all the three nude shows now playing in Las Vegas combined --- to play on any stage with a semi-nude or nude girl. So, you not only hurt the new talent from working hard ?╟÷ but you drive away the established stars -----