Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard track team slipped and shivered through the motions, but that was enough to clobber Brown 113 to 40 last Saturday. The Crimson won fourteen of the eighteen events, sweeping five of them...
Bill McCurdy's track team journeys to Providence today to take on Brown in the opening meet of the spring season. Harvard handled Brown easily, 86-23, at Briggs Cage this winter, so the outcome of the meet is hardly in doubt...
...Workers of America have voted strike authorization to their negotiators with Western Electric Co., Inc., where their contract expired March 25. Talks have been held under day-to-day extensions. In strikes already under way in television and radio (see SHOW BUSINESS), at New York's Aqueduct Race Track (see SPORT), and by dairymen of the National Farmers Organization, there seemed little hope of an overnight settlement...
...senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct race track, thereby forcing the first strike shutdown in New York racing history and costing the state upwards of $300,000 a day in revenues...
...horsemen complain that New York State benefits more from racing than any other state in the U.S.-while doing less to encourage the sport. Out of every dollar that passes through the parimutuel windows at Aqueduct and Saratoga, 100 goes to the state, and 50 to the tracks for operating expenses and purses. The state's cut last year came to $66 million; at the tracks, $15 million was available for purses after expenses. Much of that had to be allotted to occasional (some 90 per year) high-priced stakes races to which the track contributes anywhere from...