Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign manager expected George Wallace to get 260,000 votes in the Wisconsin Presidential Primary. Consequently, political commentators face the same problem sports writers had with Cassius Clay. Like Clay, Wallace won a striking and unexpected victory, though in confusing circumstances: the Alabama Governor showed that a militant segregationist could poll a quarter of the votes cast in a Northern state...
When does a clay bowl become a work...
...builders knew it or not, the construction of Anchorage was always a risk. Set as it is in southern Alaska, it is deep in an earthquake zone. To make matters worse, most of the city was built on a glacial-outwash plain, which rides on thick beds of slippery clay. When earthquake waves raced through Anchorage on Good Friday, they shattered many a brittle, modern concrete building, but their worst effect was to crack the underlying clay and start the whole place sliding toward...
Died. Alejandro Lavorante, 27, Argentine boxer who won 17 heavyweight bouts in the U.S., lost five (including one each to Cassius Clay and Archie Moore); of brain injuries suffered when he was knocked out by San Francisco's Johnny Riggins in September 1962; in Mendoza, Argentina. Despite three craniotomies, Lavorante remained in a coma for 18 months, though nurses fed him meals, guided him through exercises, even trained him to comb his hair...
...Bread. Then there were the Nilons, Bob and Jack, promoters and general "advisers" to Liston. Bob unabashedly claimed credit for persuading Cassius Clay to challenge Liston for the title. "It might be fair to say that I am the person who talked Clay into actually being heavyweight champion," he said. Jack admitted that he stands to collect $400,000 as his share of the bout's proceeds, but he shrugged that off as incidental. "There's a lot more to life than bread." Commented Mich igan Senator Philip A. Hart: "There's a lot of bread...