Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. The amusing, confusing life and times of Cassius Clay in a sharp-eyed biography that unerringly-and engagingly-separates fact from bigmouth blab...
...former delegates and alternates to Democratic conventions requesting support, got only 28 positive replies. Said an Oregonian: "The only time I would favor Senator Fulbright for any office would be in the event his opponent was Wayne Morse, in which case I would probably vote for Cassius Clay...
BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. The life and times of Cassius Clay in a sharp-eyed biography that unerringly-and engagingly-separates fact from bigmouth chaff...
...Located in Albany's slum-ridden east side, it is an academy for hard cases-40% are Negro, many of the students come from broken homes, still others are dropouts from other schools. But Ben Becker is a hard case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal to a quiet meeting behind closed doors. The problem is usually solved after...
...economic credibility gap on Capitol Hill, it received some good news from the private sector. On Wednesday, New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. reduced the prime interest rate that it charges its best business customers from 5¾% to 5½%. Coming almost two months to the clay since the Chase Manhattan set off a controversy by cutting its prime rate to the same level, Morgan's action is expected to be followed by most of the country's commercial banks. Their action, it is hoped, will accelerate the drop in home-mortgage interest rates...