Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse player knows what to do when he gets his hands on a race track's cash. Take the money and run. When New Jersey's Garden State Park caught fire in the middle of a racing afternoon, the running reached unprecedented proportions. Parimutuel clerks stuffed paper sacks, attache cases, tote bags and pockets with more than $400,000 and headed for safety-and home...
With no way to account for the money, track officials were not optimistic about how much of it they would ever see again. But now they know they can bet on their cashiers. By late last week $400,000 had been carefully returned. Summed up Mutuel Director Warren Weiss, "It was fantastic." That left only some bettors burned up. Many a winning ticket on Garden State's sixth-and last-race that day (favored Dutch Roster paid $3.20) was lost in the stampede...
...Manhattan's Statler Hilton who expect important calls can rent beepers for $5 a day, then go sightseeing. By June, a caller will be able to beep from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles via satellite. A Boston narcotics peddler used top-line $300 models to keep track of his 13 pushers-until he went to jail and the pushers made off with the pagers. The users most thoroughly hooked on pocket page calls may be ... well, hookers. The gadgets are standard equipment for Las Vegas professionals...
Hold it! Don't bury the Radcliffe track story at the bottom of the sports page. This team is clamoring for attention after pasting the University of Connecticut and Fitchburg State in a triangular meet at Fitchburg yesterday afternoon...
...polo field and race track date from the days when The Country Club had no golf course but served as a haven for New England's wealthy families, "free from the annoyance of horse railroads...