Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invited Russians never showed up, but 272 other tennis hopefuls did. Seventy-six players from 28 nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain even whizzed in on a chartered plane from Amsterdam, poor-mouthing in many tongues that they were used to clay courts and expected to play miserably on the grass. Australia sent seven men, and the Common Market chipped in two each from Belgium and The Netherlands, four from France, three from Germany and one from Italy. But for the first time in the eight dreary years since Tony Trabert won the men's singles...
That program was foreign aid - and the House that very afternoon had indeed given the President's foreign aid authorization bill an awful going-over. The Administration originally had requested $4.9 billion for foreign aid. Then, after the report of a presidential committee headed by retired General Lucius Clay had criticized the program, the Administration scaled down its demands to $4.5 billion. The House Foreign Affairs Committee cut the program even further, to $4.1 billion. And last week the House knocked out still another $585 million, slashing the total authorization to $3,502,075,000. It was the worst...
...Clay Pigeon. When the chiefs stepped down, it was the scientists' turn. Dr. Edward H. Teller, one of the developers of the hydrogen bomb and strong advocate of intensive atmospheric test ing, told the Senate that "the signing was a mistake. If you ratify the treaty, you will have committed an enormously greater mistake." Teller's chief objection was that the U.S. would be un able to perfect an anti-ballistic missile. Though he admits that a workable system would probably cost an astronomic $50 billion, he declared: "Missile defense may make the difference between our national survival...
...Livermore Lab at 33, challenged Teller, noted that while he was "a dear personal friend of Edward's, in this case I disagree with him." But Lewis Strauss, Dwight Eisenhower's Atomic Energy Commission chairman for five years, seconded Teller. The treaty is "a clay pigeon," he said. "It is made to be breached. I think it will be breached to our disadvantage...
...Loser. At the Post and its parent Curtis Publishing Co., the verdict landed with a thud. Its secondary effects had yet to be studied as advertisers assess the damage done to the Post's reputation. "The Story of a College Football Fix" was only one entry in Editor Clay Blair Jr.'s program of "sophisticated muckraking," designed to rejuvenate the magazine. That program has already generated three other libel actions-one of them filed by Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant for the very same article...