Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching cadre, 31 of whom are Viet Nam veterans, spent six weeks building Vinh Hoa, which they named for the Rev. Nguyen Lac Hoa, a Catholic soldier-priest who began fighting the Viet Cong in 1959. The instructors' wives wove grass rugs and made clay cooking pots, while children helped to fashion the village's huts and whittled vicious punji stakes of bamboo. For added authenticity, chickens were let loose to roam the village...
...rafters with an ever expanding jet set, whom Spaniards call hi-lifers (pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest of all is a converted palace in old Madrid, where, under 18th century tapestries and paintings of the court, diners are offered the specialty of the house: a whole chicken baked in clay, Roman-style, which is deftly parted by the waiter's silver hammer...
Todd Wilkinson (four), down by four points to Penn's Clay Hamlin in the fifth game, settled down completely and took control of play to maintain his unblemished varsity record...
...remember one problem," winced the Greatest. "There are twelve bushels of apples. They cost $10 each. You buy them, but before you do, you take a third of the apples out of each bushel. How much do you pay for the apples?" That one floored Heavyweight Cassius Clay, 23, and after he'd taken the count on two Army aptitude tests, the U.S. declared that the champion just wasn't bright enough to fight. Now Colonel Everette Stephenson, director of Selective Service in Kentucky, will "more than likely" summon Clay for another round of brain crushers. Meantime...
...Quakers have strong juniors in the third and fourth spots. Serues, the son of Amherst's squash coach, and Clay Hamlin, a converted tennis player, are quick, hard-hitting competitors, though not of the same calibre as Harvard's Rick Sterne or Todd Wilkinson. Neither Wilkinson nor Sterne has ever lost a varsity match...