Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement of traffic is what everyone wants. Traffic Commissioner Rudolph's plan will probably move more automobiles through the Square more quickly than at present but at the expense of one of Cambridge's most endearing traditions: the freedom to walk where one likes. Policemen will be able to ticket pedestrians who venture outside crosswalks, which despite luminous paint are now virtually invisible. Hurried motorists will be able to run down errant pedestrians and worry less about paying damages...
...beats the big system is an odds-on favorite to become a national hero. And so, when an aptly titled long shot named Historic Value won the ninth harness race one night last week at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, the holder of the winning $132,232.80 ticket was hailed by every $2 bettor as the man of the hour...
...where was the man? The world's most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...
...brother John E. Saker Jr., 30, in a 14-horse stable. Fair Acres Farm in Freehold, N.J. The Saker brothers also own a franchise in a supermarket chain. Their father, described as too ill and elderly to make the trip, owns the fifth share in the winning ticket. The sixth partner? Bresnahan's father, also too ill and elderly to make the trip. The seventh? His name was not immediately disclosed...
...then there were lots of unanswered questions. And no one was more interested in the answers than the Internal Revenue Service, which stood to lose some $44,000 of the winner's loot. For where a single ticket holder (estimated on a fairly shortsighted basis to have a wife, two children and no outside income) would take no more than the standard 10% deduction and pay a whopping $67,000 tax, a seven-way split figured on the same basis would net each partner $18,890 and leave the Government a measly $23,000 total. Said the Revenooers last...