Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales of $9.7 million. The paper's principal owners, Millionaire City Councilman Carter Burden and Voice President Bartle Bull, received $800,000 in cash and 600,000 shares of New York Magazine Co. stock, which amounts to 34% of the outstanding shares. For New York Editor and Publisher Clay Felker, 45, who is also president of the parent company, acquisition of the Voice added a new dimension to his journalistic career. Felker joined Time Inc. in 1951 and worked as a LIFE correspondent in New York and Washington before moving to Esquire as feature editor in 1957. Hired...
...Democratic gubernatorial primary, former State Treasurer Bob Straub, 54, unexpectedly nosed out both liberal State Senator Betty Roberts and Incumbent Treasurer James Redden, who had broad support from organized labor and the press. On the Republican side, voters rejected Clay Myers, the secretary of state whom Governor Tom McCall had strongly backed to succeed him. Instead, they chose conservative State Senator Victor Atiyeh. Finally, voters of both parties joined to defeat five of six statewide ballot measures, including a bond issue for water projects, proposals to use some gasoline-tax funds for mass transit, and a school-tax measure that...
...earn money on a couch." This interpretation of Freudian dogma appears in the July issue of Out along with eight pages of photos of Sigmund's great-granddaughter, Nicola Freud, 22, wearing nothing " but a pair of high boots. Nikki, the eldest child of British M.P. Clement ("Clay") Freud, has already been a jockey in the U.S. and a go-go girl in Spain. Now living in Chicago with Playboy Travel Editor Reg Potterton and their ten-month-old son Tom, Nikki has embarked on a freelance-writing career, plus an occasional publicity diversion such...
...could even frame this proposition as a categorical imperative: Anonymous horseshoes will be inexorably followed by clay feet...
...failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal was formed and then covered with thin sheets and threads of finely worked beeswax; this was mantled with clay and dried, then heated, so that the wax ran out of the mold and molten metal could be poured in to take its place...