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...Ervin got up and went to the hospital with a wrenched back, a damaged kidney and a pinched intestine. Bret got up-and won by four lengths with a substitute driver. Last month, in the $125,236 Cane Futurity at New York's Yonkers Raceway, another horse broke stride on the first turn and caromed off Bret's sulky. "I almost went into orbit," shuddered Ervin, after crossing the finish line 31 lengths in front...
...steel complex will use low-cost power from another new project now abuilding: a grid of power plants that will generate electricity from such unusual sources as boiling springs and a water raceway that runs underground for nearly six miles through the rocky soil of South Island. Parliament will soon extend the country's territorial limits from three miles to twelve to protect New Zealand's infant fishing industry, which is being trained by the Japanese to catch tuna and by the Australians to harvest oysters. Hoping to form a kind of Tasmanian Common Market, New Zealand...
...years later. About a third of the shows on TV are so recorded. American Airlines and Pan American use videotape for their in-flight entertainment. The New York Telephone Co. helps train its salesmen by videotaping them during practice sessions and showing them playbacks of their mistakes. Yonkers Raceway uses the videotape to judge photo finishes. Many schools have begun to use videotape for classroom teaching, and several manufacturers use recordings of complex industrial processes to track down production problems...
...Dahlman, 21, dropped out of New York City's Wagner College this fall and began to devote full time to the pari-mutuel teaching machines on the oval campus of Yonkers Raceway. His discriminating bets on the trotters soon put him $15,000 ahead, surely enough to make him an honor student among dropouts. Then, fortnight ago, he broke the record at Yonkers U., picking twin-double winners two nights in succession and walking off with $176,482.20 in prize money (half the lifetime earnings of the average college graduate...
...Just two days earlier, Robert and Mary Froner of Brooklyn-married four months-hit a twin double at New York's Roosevelt Raceway for a U.S. record win of $172,726 on a $2 ticket...