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    AL FREEMAN / SANDS HOTEL / LAS VEGAS FOR RELEASE: UPON RECEIPT SANDS CELEBRATES "SWEET 16th" ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEKEND LAS VEGAS/ NEVADA (DEC. 9), , , , , , , THE SANDS CELEBRATES ITS "Sweet 16th" Anniversary this weekend/ with an elaborate schedule OF EVENTS FOR MORE THAN 700 GUESTS AND CELEBRITIES IN A 3-DAY GALA CELEBRATION/ BEGINNING THURSDAY. THE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL HAS BECOME ONE OF THE TOP SOCIAL EVENTS IN LAS VEGAS EACH YEAR/ AS GUESTS FROM A5 STATES AND A FOREIGN COUNTRIES CONVERGE ON THE HOTEL. The FESTIVITIES START THURSDAY NIGHT WITH A WELCOMING "HALO-HALO" (luau). On Friday night the traditional Anniversary Show* presented BY SHOW PRODUCER JACK EnTRATTER/ 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 APPEARANCE IN THIS SPECIAL SHOW/ WILL BE STARRED/ ALONG WITH Sammy -Davis, Jr. / the current Sands star. The Sands Inner Circle will present a luncheon-fashion show Friday afternoon in the Copa Room/ featuring "Designs for the Modern Woman" by famed California couturier Manning Silver, -more-