Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The result was a treaty sharply limiting defensive anti-ballistic missile sites and an interim agreement freezing offensive missiles at roughly current levels for the next five years. To take Smith's place, President Nixon last week named Fred C. Iklé (pronounced ee-CLAY), 48, the author of three books on nuclear strategy and for the past six years head of the Rand Corporation's social science department. Swiss-born, Iklé emigrated to the U.S. in 1946, got his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago, and later taught political science...
Loring and Barnett have had a little trouble getting on the track at number one doubles. They lost at Penn and then again on the soft clay of Navy, 6-4, 6-3, to Dawson and Turnblazer...
Most of the employed Indians work for the Federal government, or farm. The soil there is almost worthless-much of it is clay-and the land is used primarily for grazing. The remainder of the Indian workforce labors at the moccasin factory, a depressing blue building located outside Pine Ridge...
...White House who don't like public broadcasting at all. I don't believe all those stories. However, the names are always the same: Buchanan, who writes the speeches; Charles Colson (until a few weeks ago, political advisory to the President); and Peter Flanigan, the man to whom Clay Whitehead always had to answer. They truly are concerned about these 'talking-head' shows that are broadcast...