Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rained yesterday at Rockingham Park. Should the track be muddy or sloppy for tomorrow's festivities, a decided edge will rest with the horses who have the rail, who break out of the first four post positions...
Usually the rail post positions are anathema for the horse player. The rail horse gets hemmed in and often never get to run his race. The track surface along the rail is often deeper than the track surface out a few feet from he rail, and the rail horse flounders in the deep and soft going, while the horses in the outside holes sprint to an easy victory...
...Rockingham Park, after a rain, things are different. The Rockingham Park track does not drain rain water very well. After a rain most of the track is a mire of heavy goo, but the rail still has the hard cushion. The answer is that the running surface is sloped a little towards the infield right near the rail. The rain water that falls near the rail drains off quickly...
Though it sounds like a rural rail route, the Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line is in fact the name of the foreign policy that has guided Finland since World War II: seeking accommodation with its mighty eastern neighbor, the Soviet Union. In pursuit of this policy, Finnish President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 69, flew to Moscow last week for the 16th time since he became Finland's head of state in 1956. This week, in keeping with his country's enduring but slightly off-balance neutrality, he will make his second state visit to the U.S. to discuss such matters...
...track. The foreign systems follow a cost-be-damned philosophy and lose staggering sums. The Japanese railroads lose $1,000,000 a day. Many of the overseas systems are operated partly as make-work projects and are featherbedded to an extent that would shock even a U.S. rail unionist...