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...dollar First Presbyterian Church on Miami's Brickell Avenue and the 18-acre, cruciform drive-in Pasadena Community Church at St. Petersburg). At Hialeah, a dignified formal park stretches to the $2.5 million clubhouse. Not until he rides in an escalator into a profusion of bars, restaurants and pari-mutuel windows does the visitor get a glimpse of the track itself, which is framed by hedges of Australian pine and bougainvillaea. Dominating the infield with its lush landscaped gardens, the shallow, double-kidney shape of the lake reflects the slow-circling pink flamingos, the tame black and white swans...
With the physical set-up arranged, the possibilities become almost unlimited. Twenty years after the installation of the "Memorial Fronton," there would be an Ivy Jai-Alai League, a flourishing Basque Research Center in the department of Romance Languages and Literature, a course in Pari-Mutuel betting, and a huge increase in the University's endowment...
...that is needed would be a few tons of reinforced concrete constructed in the form of flying buttresses on three walls to support the terrific impact of the pelota, and a neon sign erected over the middle portal to advertise the pari-mutuel windows...
...former owner, under another name, of $336,800 in Yonkers stock. Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic Leader Irving Steingut, paid $250 for Yonkers stock later valued at $45,000. James J. Dunnigan, son of a onetime Democratic state senator who co-authored the New York pari-mutuel gambling law, bought control of the Buffalo Raceway on a loan, put his father on the payroll for a seven-year total of $182,816. James himself, and other members of his family, did even better, clearing $511,000 within a ten-year period...
...million building program, to include a new mental hospital and a medical school for the University of Florida, was started. McCarty's proudest achievement, however, was in pushing past the agonized yelps of the dog-track lobby a bill which increased the state's share from pari-mutuel betting...