Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallant young men made an effort to be soccer players, but essentially it was a pretense; they merely served to defect numerous Crimson shots at the Cornell goal by offering their bodies as a barrier. Clay pigeons (or gorillas) would have done just as well...
...Richard Nixon. "I'm not going to be a candidate in 1964," insisted Nixon in Manhattan last week. In 1968, when he will be only 55, he might entertain more ambitious ideas. Others whose names have been tossed out to see how they would bounce: General Lucius Clay, ex-Minnesota Representative Walter Judd, Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield. None bounced...
...nothing but a play of light," said Rosso, and to let it play, he used a material most sculptors would shudder at-wax. Rosso built up his figures in clay first, cast them in bronze, or in plaster which he then coated with warm translucent wax thick enough to let him lightly edit the original version. Increasingly he left his sculptures as mere impressions, with fewer and fewer fine details, submerging behind veils of light. In one of his last busts, Madame X, barely more than a lopsided oval of wax, Rosso nearly dismisses the tactile world entirely. The mystery...
...another title bout which he could not win and which no one would pay to see. Certainly there are heavyweights around whom Floyd can still beat. Probably he deserves to be rated fourth or fifth instead of seventh. But, he would go into the ring an underdog against Clay, Jones, and probably Terrell, and that alone is reason enough for a former champion to retire...
...Cassius Clay Liston has a potentially threatening contender. Clay nearly matches Liston in size and surpasses him in speed. Cassius could become a master boxer, and that would offset Liston's power. In two years time, with six more fights behind him and a new defense in front of him, Clay could be a serious threat to Sonny. Unfortunately, the financiers, the publicists, and Clay's own big mouth have pushed him too far too fast; he will no doubt pass up further experience for the big money. Cassius, the 21-year-old wonder boy, will deny an able...