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    5-19-55 P.*+ 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 New 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 and 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 with 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, Xf he sees lidFm at all, it's not as a girl - it's as a largewalking 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 a horse of a differ- ent color. Kelly is making a big fuss over Chuck because her boss, the owner of the Silver Slipper, would like to get him away from the roulette wheel before he and his. hundred-odd partners break