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...difference was that this contest was on water-at Lake Havasu, Ariz. -not on racetrack asphalt. The competing manufacturers were Outboard Marine Corp. and the Kiekhaefer Mercury Division of Brunswick Corp., not Detroit's major automakers. And the machines were outboard motorboats, not racing cars...
Finding the cheeze has not been easy. The running surface of the maze could be defined in racetrack terms as heavy, composed of two parts quagmire and one part bog. The first people to lose their feathers over Veeck's proposed fall meeting were the track owners of Rhode Island who had also planned a fall meeting. Depending heavily on many Boston area bettors for their revenue, it was in their best interests to block the Suffolk Downs fall meeting. But, they had no jurisdiction in Massachusetts...
...other Avalon game, entitled Year of the Lord, is based on the seasons of the Christian calendar. Or, as the instructions feverishly explain, "The church goes through the whole life of Christ once a year. This makes a swell racetrack for a game, through Advent into Christmas, off again to Epiphany, around the corner to Holy Week and Easter, and finally, circle the board to Pentecost...
...other thoroughbreds, who average about 1,100 lbs. Her small stature and undistinguished ancestry prompt some horsemen to label her a freak. "I can't find anything right about her except her record," says Trainer Buddy Raines. "It seems impossible that she has so much quality on the racetrack. If I had my pick of all the horses now running at Delaware Park, without knowing their records, she'd be the last...
...Nash's Department Store. Joe, said Chief Reddin, was "very cooperative." He and Adel Sirhan, 29, identified the prisoner as their brother, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, 24, who goes by the nickname Sol. The identification was confirmed by a check of fingerprints taken when Sirhan applied for a state racetrack...