Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these days of prosperity and progress, U.S. cities are collecting more garbage than they can dispose of. At the same time, the booming construction business is digging gravel and clay quarries that no one knows how to hide...
...Angeles Landscape Architect Henry Soto, who had to drive by a 40-ft.-deep clay pit every day on his way to work, was suddenly struck by an idea. Rounding up a few partners, he bought the pit and converted it into a private dump, charging $8 per load. To appease neighbors' noses, he covered each day's refuse with a layer of earth. To screen the mess from passersby, he built a bamboo fence, planted the border with floodlit flower beds and palm trees. When finished, the area looked so little like a dump that...
...year-old man who was threatening suicide in the back seat of a taxi. On stage at the Sahara, Comedian Buddy Hackett talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Clay, 23, then proceeded to demolish Floyd Patterson, 30, in defense of the heavyweight championship of the world...
Challenger Patterson made it sound as if the national honor was at stake "I have nothing against Mr. Clay personally," said Floyd, "but I want to give the title back to America." That meant taking it away from the Black Muslims, and they did not want to let go of any thing. Clay's cold-eyed Muslim body guards even tried to rough up Nat Fleischer, the grand old editor of Ring magazine when he approached Clay outside the arena ("Take your hands off that man!" stammered Cassius. "He's my friend...
...Shoehorn for His Hat. Clay detailed his diet for newsmen ("Muslim bean soup, Eee-gyptian brown rice, Arabian string beans"), refused to pose for photographs standing alongside the shorter (by 2½ in.) and lighter (by 14 Ibs.) Patterson. "If I did," he said, "nobody would come to see the fight...