Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best filly running on clay and grass: Chris Evert...
...system and hope to lure independent voters to their cause. Party or not, the organization will give the quixotic Mc Carthy a political platform-if it can raise enough money. So far the committee has a mere $30,000, half from Detroit Lions President (and 1968 McCarthy backer) William Clay Ford. If the committee nominates McCarthy, he will be a "deadly serious" candidate, he promised, though he has happily never been deadly serious in his discourse for more than a few sentences. Eugene J. promptly demonstrated that by comparing his role to that of John theBaptist preceding Jesus...
...Died. Clay L. Shaw, 61, the only person ever to stand trial for the assassination of President John Kennedy; of cancer; in New Orleans. In 1967, two years after his retirement as managing director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart, Shaw was accused by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill J.F.K. After many months of noisy proceedings-during which Garrison produced a motley assortment of informants and witnesses-the jury took less than an hour to acquit Shaw in March 1969. Garrison then tried to prosecute Shaw for perjury...
Good News. Social problems are the most intense in Rock Springs, a huge trove of coal, oil, shale, potash, sand, gravel, clay and cement rock. Since 1971, about 5,000 workers have moved in to build the giant Jim Bridger Power Plant- and work in a newly discovered oilfield. Another wave of outsiders, lured by the expansion of trona mines, a source of widely used sodium compounds, and the reopening of old coal mines, is expected to increase the town's 26,000 population...
...Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, may come to Harvard next year as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics...