Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
Born. To Muhammad Ali (alias Cassius Clay), 26, ex-heavyweight champ, now appealing his conviction for draft-dodging, and Belinda Boyd Ali, 18: a girl, their first child; in Chicago...
...first, officials feared that the concrete-hard clay track was short, but a careful survey showed that it actually measured 100 meters and 4 in. Then the timers came under attack: "I was watching their hands," insisted one onlooker, "and I saw some of the fastest fingers in the West." Maybe. But in the cases of Greene, Hines and Smith, an automatic Bulova Accutron Phototimer confirmed that all three had indeed broken Mary's mark. Their times were therefore submitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation for official recognition...
Detroit's International Afro-American Museum, organized by Dr. Charles H. Wright, a black gynecologist, is a trailer that tours schools. Among its exhibits: African statues from the collection of G. Mennen Williams, a clay model of the 14th century West African metropolis of Timbuctoo, and exhibits on the ancient (6th century) Zimbabwe civilization in Rhodesia...
Fermented Porridge. While roaming those uplands, Braidwood found considerable supporting evidence: long-buried mud-hut villages, fossilized remains of cultivated wheat and barley, bones of such domesticated animals as goats and sheep, and clay figurines of fertility goddesses, some voluptuous, others Twiggy-shaped. Of the 50 artifacts in the display, many of the most interesting come from his initial find at Jarmo. a cluster of some 20 simple dwellings in Iraqi Kurdistan that may well be one of the world's original farming communities. The Jarmoites did not leave a recorded history, but there is no doubt about their...