Word: raceways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-place parsnips, the Ferris wheel, and other folksy pleasures of the Du Quoin state fair. In this small Southern Illinois town (pop. 6,691), harness racing fans could even forget the aura of scandal that periodically haunts the sport-such as last June's scandal at Yonkers Raceway, which involved an amazingly low Exacta payoff, indicating a betting coup. But here, at the 46th running of the Hambletonian, no betting was allowed or ever had been by long tradition. The U.S.'s most prestigious race for standardbreds, and the middle leg of the Triple Crown for three...
...will reduce betting at the tracks, they are urging that 2% of the corporation's handle be applied to the purses to maintain their present level. Under the present law the tracks get 1%. "Offtrack betting will cut into our attendance," insists George Morton Levy, president of Roosevelt Raceway, the first track that allowed off-track betting on a regular basis. "We'll have to reduce our staff, and finally the whole thing could go down the drain." The union representing the clerks and maintenance men at some of the tracks agreed and threatened to strike if their...
...Aquarius ended with the flash of a knife early last December on a tumble-down raceway near Altamont, Calif. The Hell's Angels' motorcycle club had been hired to guard the stage at a free concert given by the Rolling Stones. From the very beginning of the day, there were bad vibrations all around. The audience was tense and anxious, the Angels, armed with weighted pool cues and other implements of destruction, tough and all too willing to fight. Several minor skirmishes broke out during the afternoon, and a member of the Jefferson Airplane was decked...
Died. Martin Tananbaum, 54, textile magnate who developed Yonkers Raceway into one of the world's largest harness-racing tracks; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Tananbaum and two brothers bought Yonkers Raceway in 1956. As president, he added a clubhouse and pioneered new stakes races. Yonkers became the first harness track to handle more than $3,000,000 in one night (1962), and by 1969 the yearly handle was up from $140 million to $314 million, a world's record...