Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...record shows otherwise, TIME ran a cover story on Cassius Clay when he was a glory-hungry Louisville boy without a pro title to his name (March 22, 1963). Eleven months later, he took the heavyweight championship from Sonny Listen, and has easily defended the crown six times since then. Or take Racing Driver Jim Clark. The week after the July 9, 1965 cover was written, Clark won his fourth Grand Prix of the season, ended up World Champion...
Hoeveler won the "A" singles without a loss of set. Harvard's entries, Bernie Adelsberg bowed to Army's Pete Conway, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, while Gonzalez succumbed to Penn's Clay Hamlin...
Agricultural Engineer Clarence Hansen and Agronomist A. Earl Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...
Easier decided than done. Neither artificial layers of clay nor sheets of polyethylene film placed two feet below the surface succeeded in retaining moisture. Rain water leaked through seams or holes, the soil dried out, and test crops fared badly. Then, at the suggestion of the American Oil Co., the researchers began experimenting with asphalt for their water barrier. Once they had perfected their technique, the results were immediate and bountiful...