A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : RACE BEGINS ON SOUR NOTE.There was a distinctly Texas flavor to the festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. before Sunday's Interstate Batteries Interstate Battery System of America, Inc., a.k.a. Interstate Batteries, is a privately-owned company that markets automotive batteries manufactured by Johnson Controls through nearly 300 independent distributors. The company is based in Houston, Texas. 500 in Fort Worth. But it was missing its biggest name - piano virtuoso Van Cliburn Van Cliburn (b. Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. . Cliburn, who lives in Fort Worth, was supposed to play the national anthem, but confusion among the helicopters ferrying fans into the facility left him waiting on the tarmac at Alliance Airport, about four miles away. Speedway officials didn't realize Cliburn wasn't there until three minutes before he was to perform. Country singer Woody Lee, who was to have sung ``Deep In The Heart Of Texas,'' was pressed into service for ``The Star-Spangled Banner.'' Lee obviously hadn't prepared for it because he botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. the words. The other song was scratched, putting on hold for a year the hope to start a tradition in Texas much like ``Back Home Again In Indiana'' is at the Indy 500. |
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