Word: greyhounds
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...Racing Theater," a new, cavernous 5,000-seat trackside auditorium where bettors can watch the tote board and the race on a 40-ft. closed-circuit TV screen. It is more convenient to put down late bets that way. Between races they study Vince De Marco's 75? greyhound tip sheet. When the mechanical rabbit takes off on its mad whirl around the track, the fans become possessed. Cries of "Come on, you goddam dog!" echo through the auditorium...
...other alternative to flying, the bus lines, report no such problems. Nathan Karp, terminal manager for Greyhound Bus Lines, said that if buses are filled, "we just send another bus." He said that he anticipated no delays or shortages of buses...
Lessard had been representing a group called Tourism and Development, which had tried to obtain a license. The New Hampshire Greyhound Racing Commission refused licenses to Tourism and Development and eight other applicants, Norris said. Only two applicants received licenses...
...Yesss, that's true," Mrs. Ellis replies a little tentatively. The two are sitting behind me chance seat mates on a Greyhound hound for Detroit from Chicago She speaks with good sharp mid western is and I think maybe she was from Nebraska before she became a butcher's wife in Chicago. She's a widow now and sounds like everyone's grandmother: prim, alert, congenitally sympathetic...
West of Jackson we have a half-hour rest stop. I get in line for some food. A guy I remembers seeing in the Chicago Greyhound station, who looks my age and wears waffle stompers and a moustache, is sitting at the empty end of a table, and I sit down with him. Before I've finished my soup I find out we're both getting off the bus in Ann Arbor, where I'm visiting for a day and he's doing a psychiatry clerkship at the Michigan Medical School. He is very friendly, and very unassuming. He asks...