Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over 220 freshmen have signed a letter to Cassius Clay telling him they support his refusal to join the United States Army...
...group of Holworthy residents drafted the letter after reading comments of journalists who questioned Clay's patriotism. When Clay refused the army's call to induction on religious grounds--he is a Black Muslim minister--the World Boxing Association stripped him of his title crown, and most columnists supported...
...Angeles Times, Sports Columnist Jim Murray tried: "Cassius Clay is really Al Jolson," "Support your local police-bet with a bookie who buys protection," "Ronald Reagan for umpire...
...biggest boost in years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene foam...
Electronic billboards posted about the grounds tripped on their own electrical connections, produced tongue-twisting typographical errors. The most embarrassing were the signs touting FLOKLORE OF ETHKOPIA while Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was touring the site. At India's pavilion, someone stole the trunk of a clay elephant, and the sturgeons in the Soviet pavilion pool had to thrash about to dodge hundreds of pennies visitors tossed at them...