Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handicap a horse race simply by picking a jockey, regardless of his mount, the trainer or the opposition, is usually considered a form of gambling insanity. Not so last week at New York's Aqueduct race track. There, a $2 win bet on the same jockey in each of eight races on the same afternoon would have paid off $56. The jockey was Angel Cordero Jr., who has been almost unbeatable since the opening of Aqueduct's spring meeting last month. In 15 days of racing at the "Big A," Cordero has ridden 48 winners and finished...
...communes, including a couple of days at Tachai, the model commune. It's not the model commune because it's richest but because its people built dams and tunnels to hold off floods and filled in ravines pretty much without benefit of machinery--they're finishing up a new aqueduct at the moment. Then when most of their work was washed away in a flood they refused to accept state aid in rebuilding it, so Chairman Mao said, "In agriculture we learn from Tachai," and it became the model commune. Its weatherbeaten vice president said it gets 2000 visitors...
...religious Jews who marched 5,000 strong into biblical Judea and Samaria for a sitdown strike. The Israeli army managed to hold back all but about 300. One group of religious youths, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, made their way into a 500-ft. gorge beside an old Turkish aqueduct to squat there until the army or hunger forced them out. "It is our right as Jews to live here," said Rabbi Levinger. "No secular govern ment has the right to give away what the Torah has said is ours...
...does the company like to talk about the possibility of rupturing the Catskill Aqueduct--which supplies about 40 per cent of New York City's water--as it blasts its tunnel through the mountain. When it does, its statements are couched in such language as "we have every expectation" that reports denying that such damage could occur are correct. The City of New York is not as confident, and has gone to court to support its view...
...spokesman could not give a specific date when the blasting would reach its closest point to the aqueduct, about half way between the top and the bottom of the Storm King plant's tunnel to the Hudson...