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REVERE, Mass.--In two months, when the bell sounds and the last race is run here at Wonderland, Mary Sacca will sigh, pack up her programs and head for the door--probably for the last time...
...order to increase profit, the management of Wonderland Greyhound Park has decided to enact a series of cost-cutting measures, one of which is to lay off Sacca and many of her co-workers when winter arrives...
...personal and real reminder of the effect that out-of-state gambling enterprise have had on local betting organizations such as Wonderland, where Sacca sells the daily race programs...
...popular art, smoking was always chic. Fred and Ginger, Bogie and Bacall, every gangster, gunslinger and G.I. used cigarettes to emblematize their suavity, maturity, grit. Kids loved the lordly caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, purring, "Whoooo are yooooo?" while blowing his Alpha-Bits smoke rings. For the college set, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward R. Murrow were the patron saints of nicotine. F.D.R.'s cigarette, in a holder at a jaunty angle, proved him both a dapper patrician and a man of the people, while the . can-do bosses of the public weal sucked on fat cigars. Smoke...
...scare, support for the $700 million project appears to have diminished. The new Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, who also owns Foxborough Stadium, will keep the football club in Massachusetts. Thus, there is no longer an urgent need to entice the owner with the benefits of a state-funded football wonderland. And now liberal state politicians are wondering aloud whether other projects might better serve their constituents...