Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classroom, teachers try to make the subject matter as specific as possible-especially in the elementary grades, where they commonly assign children to model the male and female genitals in clay or make drawings of them and their workings. Some instructors use plastic manikins from which the exterior genitals can be removed to reveal the apparatus within. One sex educator in Detroit demonstrates the stretching of the uterus with a rubber ball inside a sock, and the growth of the human embryo by soaking beans in water until they swell and sprout. Teachers get much help from movies in schools...
Ever since Pittsburgh Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick left his strong-willed daughter a fortune that has grown to at least $38 million in five decades, Helen Clay Frick has spent her life idealizing his "Christian" memory and devoting his cash to such cultural works as Manhattan's Frick art museum. Thus in 1964, Miss Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil...
...Holworthy freshmen decided to circulate a letter commending Clay "for refusing to aid the military effort" as long as the war in Vietnam continues...
Robert H. Yolken '70, who helped draft the letter, said yesterday that he and most of the other freshmen involved are not boxing enthusiasts. But they felt that the WBA and other boxing associa- tions had been unfair in revoking the title, especially since Clay's case is still in the courts...
...freshmen will send the letter to Clay "to tell him someone's on his side...