Word: raceways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would think that with the annual failure of his pennant boasts, New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner would find the business of baseball risky enough. Think again. Last week Steinbrenner was at the starting gate of Florida's Pompano Park Harness Raceway, sitting in a sulky alongside such sporting celebs as Writer George Plimpton and Yankee Hall of Famer Whitey Ford. "When you become a businessman you become stagnant in some ways," explains Steinbrenner, who owns a trotter and a pacer. "You don't do as many of the exciting and dangerous things you used to do. It was skydiving...
...Henry's Roman Catholic Church was built in Pompano Beach, they had a sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
...another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the men's World Cup downhill season earlier this month, but on the horizontal track at California's Riverside International Raceway. Johnson, who was gearing up for the pro-celebrity during the Toyota Grand Prix to be held this week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading in his skis for fast wheels. Says he: "Like skiing, it was tough at first, but I learned quickly." Adds his father...
...Raceway Park, Shirley tries to collect signatures from fellow drivers to qualify for the race, while many drivers respond to Shirley with remarks like, "make me some bacon and eggs," Connie Kalitta (Beau Bridges) "the bounty hunter," not only signs her petition but helps her to enter the race, in which she is the first woman ever. Of course, she sets a track record. The race initiates Shirley's close relationship with Kalitta, who becomes her friend, lover, mechanic and eventual competitor. She eventually leaves her husband, takes her son and goes West with Connie to make...
Last week the new management team headed by Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Martin Davis, 56, announced a major streamlining program to rid the company of low-profit operations. Among the cast-off candidates: Arlington Park race track near Chicago and Roosevelt Raceway in New York, manufacturer E.W. Bliss, and Sega's video-game-making unit. The moves would save the company about $470 million in tax write offs, but produce a loss of $215 million this year...