Word: raceways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climactic confrontation began when the Democratic House attached to its version of the continuing resolution a $5.4 billion "jobs program." The bill was a pork barrel brimming with public works projects: clearing Cow Castle Creek in South Carolina, rehabilitating a raceway in California, funding a tree-planting program, and repairing military housing facilities. Reagan, who vetoed a continuing resolution a year ago because he wanted more spending on defense and less on domestic programs, was infuriated. "I don't give a damn if it's Friday night and the Government is brought to a standstill," he told Republican...
...park-and-party space. Spots go quickly. Liquor stores and Kentucky Fried Chicken stay open 24 hours a day, and people sit on lawn chairs, drunk, staring at the traffic streaming into town. On 30th St., across from one of the four gates leading into the raceway infield, you can walk the length of each block on the tops of mobile homes...
...Still, Joe Montana's famed cool-underpressure should get a pressurized workout at this weekend's pro/celebrity race during the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Montana, 25 has been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser and fellow 49er Linebacker Jack ("Hacksaw") Reynolds. Racing on the same track as pros like Unser and Jones, says Reynolds nervously, "is like putting...
...trips to the post, he is the Secretariat of his sport. The fastest pacer ever to pull a sulky, Niatross holds world records for both the racing mile and a mile in a time trial. Last weekend, he won the Messenger Stakes at New York's Roosevelt Raceway by two lengths on a rain-soaked track to capture the Triple Crown for pacers.* Niatross thus became only the sixth pacer in history to win the Triple Crown and assured his place among the super-horses of any breed...
...world's meanness, violence, and disorder. Even the most coolly-pictured scenes convey a sharp sense of the photographer's elation in the face of his medium's immense range, its omnivorousness. Consider, as a final example, James Bodo's color photograph showing a "Putt-Putt" miniature car raceway, empty and sheeted in snow. It is difficult to look hard at such a picture without being overtaken by a sudden, intimate, desolating sense of the particular strangeness and beauty of 20th-century civilization, and without realizing simultaneously that this exact, simple configuration of forms--the vista of T-shaped streetlamps...