After spending more than $700,000 ...

After spending more than $700,000 to lobby for slot machines in the District of Columbia, reserving real estate for casinos, and collecting more than 20,000 signatures to conduct a referendum, Black promoters suddenly discovered that the U.S. Congress would not permit gambling in the nation's capital, the mecca of millions of tourists yearly visiting the historic shrines. The winner of the area's first slot machines well may be the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia ..