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...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...
...moon-"238,000 miles from Waldbaum's"-and beneath it advertised extra-large cantaloupes at three for 89?. A Long Island harness-racing track accompanied a picture of an astronaut stepping off the base of an LM mockup with the advice: "Hey, finish it later-Roosevelt Raceway opens tomorrow night." TWA and Pan Am eagerly accepted a spurt of new applications for the first commercial flights to the moon; one recent booking was made by California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Medals, pennants and assorted trinkets suddenly developed a moon motif-and found hordes of eager customers...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Atlanta 500 stock-car race from Atlanta International Raceway; World Surfing Championships from Rincon, Puerto Rico...