Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyway, not the Carters of Georgia. The family seemed just as much at home on the sooty sidewalks of New York as on the red clay of Plains. They attended plays and parties, shopped at Bonwit's and Bergdorf's, held a family dinner at Mamma Leone's, munched pastrami and corned beef at a delicatessen, rode the Staten Island ferry and the Circle Line around Manhattan and artfully revealed and concealed themselves as the press and crowds of curious, friendly people dogged their every step. It was almost as if the Carters were throwing a party...
...Cherokee Indians were surprised and puzzled a few years ago to learn that an Englishman wanted to buy five tons of clay in the Carolina mountains. But Josiah Wedgwood usually gets what he wants. He offered the Indians £500 for the material and had it shipped back to London...
Still experimenting, Wedgwood is now concentrating mainly on a new product that he calls Jasper Ware because it is almost as shiny as jasper. Wedgwood was the first to discover that clay containing barium compounds can be more highly polished than any other and can be beautifully colored by various metallic oxides. To exploit the classical revival started by the recent excavations in Pompeii, Wedgwood is embossing his Jasper Ware with bas-relief of Greek and Roman figures...
...news. Last week the Capitol was unveiling a major new restoration−the old Senate chamber has been returned to its 19th century splendor, replete with red plush benches and coffered half-dome ceiling−just as it was when it rang with the debates of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun...
...such other-directed person who has finally (and barely) achieved his goal of being admitted to medical school. His commitment to medicine, particularly rural medicine in his home state, is unimpeachable. He spent last summer researching a summa cum laude anthropology thesis on rural health care delivery in Clay County, W. Va. For another summer, he worked in a clinic in Morgantown...