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I agree.This item has not been digitized in its entirety. The original item is available for research and handling at the UNLV University Libraries. Additional digitization is available upon request. Please contact Special Collections to request additional digitization or with any questions regarding access at special.collections@unlv.edu. LA5yE(JA6 It's a brightly lighted, booming, gambling, marrying-and-divorcing town where your money or marriage can be "easy come, easy go" Dice is the favorite on tables that are open 24 hours a day seven days a week. The hopeful roll, pray stickman?╟╓s cry will be ?╟úEe-oh-leven, you win.?╟Ñ CONTINUED ?√ß as Vegas?╟÷the Spanish named it for ?╟úfertile mead-L ows.?╟Ñ The Mormons tried to settle it. Union Pacific pioneers sweated to build its railroad. And toughened prospectors bought their grubstakes there. But no one ever hit a bonanza like the fortune hunters of the last decade who have cashed in on the universal yen for easy money. These well-heeled gents, operating under Nevada?╟╓s permissive gambling and lenient divorce-marriage laws, opened a new kind of gold mine. They built luxurious desert oases to make living comfortable and gambling easy. And they made a million-dollar jackpot keep hitting for them against the guys and gals who think they can beat the house percentage. In Las Vegas, you can make or break a bankroll in a few minutes. Or do the same with a marriage. It?╟╓s a brightly lighted, gay town for the uninhibited, a dry desert for the timid-hearted or poor in purse or spirit. Produced by BEN WICKERSHAM ?╟≤ Photographed by JOHN VACHON Four of the town?╟╓s biggest operators are, left to right: Jake Kosloff, Last Frontier; Gus Greenbaum, Flamingo; Beldon Katelman, El Rancho Vegas; Wilbur Clark, Desert Inn.