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-i' -rf. A 1 Twjfr-v 4n bv a.1 ovr-- ii. iw4 INDEPENDENT. P8ESS-TELEGEAM-US-9 La iMCft, CaW Mar. Iv-v I By HERB SHANNON Travel Editor Ambassador to die U.S., on a busy round of appearances to beat the arums for the 1976 Olym-c Games: in Montreal, borne town.

While MGM virtually auctioned off its film production facilities to open an extravaganza of a hotel in Las Vegas, Cdvereariy-SJWft new rooms City has not so much lost wilt -bemadded to Mon-a movie studio as gained treals hotel facilities for a spanking' new hotel of the Olympics through new its own. construction and expan- The 400-room, 12-story sum of the legacy of facili-Americana of Los Angeles ties from Expo 87, Ca- tins country will go to the U.S. Olympics committee. Another American cooperative tourism venture is Expo 74, to be held this year in Spokane, to the mutual border state of Washington, Cadieux pointed out. adjacent ptovincesof British Columbia and Alberta are sponsoring exhibits on two islands of the World's Fair complex.

We are very keen- on making the Spokane fair a success, he said. In keeping with the ecological theme of Expo 74, the federal government of Canada is sponsoring the landscaping of the two islands. That will' 'remain long after the fair is over." 4 opened last 'week just in dieux promised. He point-side the Culver City limite ed out that last two side the Culver City limits Frenchpeaktog city to the world, Montreal always has been attractive to tourists, he said, Warming to his pleasant task. The cultural heritage of the city provides a good many, amenities, including some of the best restaurants to the wo rid.

i THE ENVOY said construction of a new Olympics stadium is expected to be fully financed by an anticipated $250 million profit from the sale of commemorative coins to be struck by the Royal Canadian mint Advance sales indicate that as much as 50 per cent of the 60 million silver collector coins will be sold to Canada alone, he said. He added that 25 per cent of the total will be reserved for sale to the U.S., Canadas largest source of tourism, and that three per cent of the proceeds of coins sold to conventions totaling more than 40,000 delegates were accommodated to Montreal without straining existing facilities. A partisan of toe city of 1.4 million by birth, Cadieux said neither housing nor entertanment would be a problem for visitors now or when the Olympics begin to August two years hence. As the seventh largest city to North America and the second largest MGM GRAND HOTEL IN LAS VfeGAS on Centinela Boulevard" west of the San Diego Freeway. The 18th to the international chain of hotels rated by a subsidiary American Airlines is three miles north of Los Angeles International Air- and on the fringe of the aquatic attractions of Marina Del Rey.

A series of receptions and ceremonies celebrated the inauguration of Los- -Angelos into the Fly. American, Stay Americana policy. The new hotel reflects the contemporary style of other Amencanas located throughout the U.S., to the Caribbean, Mexico and the Pacific. Among others to the chain are the dramatic 2, 000-room Americana to New. York City, toe Ala Moana of Honolulu and about 7,000 more deluxe domiciles to Puerto Rico, Mexico (Sty, Acapulco, Pago Pago, Seoul and U.S.

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Old Nevadas 45 buildings have been painstakingly constructed to appear exactly as they did a century ago, modeled from' old photos and Nevada mining camp ruins. Levinson insists upon authenticity. A Chinaman works to theXhtoeselaiuK ary. 'Western gear shopkeepers'llresi for their parts. Archaic telephones are Koopmans Tnvtl UKI S.

PereoNeet BM. ParaMMO, CjL NIM4M By CHORAL PEPPER In Las Vegas are talking about two wild mw things. One is the MGM Grand Hotel. The other is Old Nevada at Bonnie Springs Ranch. The MGM Grand hotels degree of wildness depends upon how you react to its wild, wild rooms.

Designed for Ma and Pa they aint, unless shes bqen reading something like the Sensuous Woman. However, if youve always wanted to give the old man a wicked surprise and never dared, this is the place to do it-Imagine how-astonished hell- be when be comes up from the Keno game and finds you bathing to a gigantic marble tub smack to the middle of the fitting room. Or maybe he would prefer a round lied set onr a dais under a mirrored Ceiling. Or the purple carpeted, velvet Upholstered Hollywood suite to which could slide down a curved bands-'ter from the split-level bedroom, or swing down from its gilded chandelier Jike the to the Lido show. 2 The Intels casino might have a problem wooing guest down from the playful rooms.

The rest of the hotel is as grand-as jt to an antiqi uled unsched iue switchboard shoot-outs and FEEL LIKE IT'S TIME FORA BREAK? take this course to the Orient Loo Angela1 Arrangement by its name implies. The lobby is unusually spacious for Las Vegas and theyve put silencers on the slot machines. A Universe Campus. the bonus wiH be fascinating and discussions on there win be free. You can participate as you lile.

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Former movie stunt men play these roles. Bonnie Springs Ranch is celebrated among Las Vegas Locals "for its fine Neckties clipped to business cards hang like icicles from ceiling rafters, confiscated from patrons who arrived to city attire. i For compulsive desert explorers like me, the attraction is the surround4 tog country. There are still pictograph and petroglyph sites to Red Rock CaiW on that mystify rock art experts, hese pictographs (designs painted onto rock surfaces) and petroglyphs (those incised, or pecked into cliff walls) Are unique to that prehistoric tribes traditionally specialized to only one method at a time. In other words, the picters didnt peck and the peckers didnt pict.

At Red Rock, howevAr, the' same artists did both. To further compound the mystery, their distinctive designs, prophetically resembling stacked champagne glasses with legs kicking out of them, are totally unlike other prehistoric Nevada rock art Instead, they are identical to those of the Chumash Indians, an early tribe that hung out to caves near Santa Barbara, California. Whether they were going this-a-way or that-a-way will remain a challenge, for future back-country explorers. More rites like Red Rock could embarrass a prominent California archaeologist who has stated unequivocably that the Chumash never roamed east of the Sierra Nevada. $299 Hn to lama Name.

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A TV room just for are named after famous entertainers. And then there are two showrooms and a movie theater. Gambling, of. course, rates prime time for most visitors. The innovation here is a Jai Alai fronton, the only facility north of Tijuana that features this fast, Basque ball game.

Considering that the hotel finally tallied out million, it will have to keep its casino busy to order to break even. So far, things look good. While I was there a full table of baccarat players casually wagered $100 bills. One player might have been a shill. His worry beads were colored red.

A legitimate Greek worrier would know that red is for love. Blue is for money. Maybe he was worrying about the surprise up to his $50 room. OLD NEVADA at Bonnie Springs Ranch is equally dramatic, but to quite a different way. This rough, tough old Western village is situated to the Red Rock country 20 miles west of city.

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