Word: raceways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waving Confederate flags, emitting Rebel yells, and sipping beer from paper cups, spectators at the big raceway in Darlington, S.C., waited with genial impatience last week for the start of the Southern 500, a classic stock-car event. They barely noticed the tall, lean man whose neat blue and white seersucker suit contrasted sharply with the bib overalls, T shirts and baseball caps in the crowd. Then the stranger in town stepped up onto the platform erected temporarily on the edge of the track, approached the microphone, and desperately tried to create an instant rapport with his audience...
...lavish capital parties last month, arrived this time as a guest in his sumptuous embassy residence. Hand in hand, the pair took a tour of dinner parties and luncheons, and one evening they passed up a Blue Bird cast party for a trip to Rosecroft Raceway, a nearby harness track. There Liz found occasion to sit in Zahedi's lap, snuggle under his cape as they awaited the moment to make a trophy presentation, and demurely decline the chance to pose in a sulky when he suggested it might be dangerous for her. (The thought must have amused horse...
...already-hysterical crowd was prodded on by the Screamin' Eagle Marhcing Band, and the scoreboard lit up advertising the "Shamrock Shuffle Post-Game Party at the Bay State Raceway...
...vehicle's nose was connected by wire to a battery in the rear. The nose of each car lined up for the race rests flush against a hinged metal plate that drops forward into the asphalt at the start, allowing the vehicle to roll forward down the inclined raceway. As he settled back into his racer, Gronen's helmet touched off a lever that activated the battery and magnet, and as the metal plate fell forward the magnet's pull toward it gave his vehicle enough extra starting impetus to win. If that weren't enough...
...more or less typical working day this summer, Harness-Racing Driver Hervé Filion finished five races at New Jersey's Freehold Raceway and flew by chartered plane to New York's Yonkers Raceway for four more starts. Then, still wearing his red, white and blue silks, he boarded a helicopter waiting on the track's infield, shuttled to the Teterboro, N.J., airport, transferred to a chartered jet, flew to the Toronto Island Airport, took a speedboat to the mainland, jumped into a police car and arrived at Greenwood Raceway just in time to take another turn...