Word: clays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side, Wendy Smith plays a mandolin with a country band called Blue Velvet. His friend Donald Clay, a Ford worker in Ypsilanti, Mich., also has a band, North Country Grass. "We was raised up together," says Wendy. "There was only one well on Ranger Ridge, and his daddy had it, and we carried water from...
...Clay, 46, first came north with a cousin when he was 17. "We was trying all the plants we could walk to. My cousin was 18, but too thin, and I was too young. So we traded wallets, and I hired on in his name. They never noticed. He worked there a long time. Later on, I hired in at Ford. I was really tickled when I got my job. The super offered to buy me lunch. I said no, I have money, I'll buy my own lunch. That was 28 years...
...Clay met and married his wife Thelma, 47, five weeks after she arrived in Detroit from Wise, Va. "I loved working in the factory," she recalls, "but my sister-in-law was working right beside me, and she got her hand cut off up to the knuckles. That scared me to death. On the line, it was bad, but you know, I really liked it I liked the work...
...Says one union official who earns $200 a year more than the ceiling allows for student aid: "My daughter's at college. They told her to get a job if she needed help. And there ain't no jobs! Something has got to be wrong somewhere." Thelma Clay cans vegetables from her one-acre garden and worries: "It hurts the young ones, it really does. My daughter's been laid off four years and she'll probably never get called back. She's got two kids and she can't find nothing that will...
...request. Back home, Blagg related, he switched on the TV and caught reports of the Tylenol deaths near Chicago. He took apart some capsules from his own bottle, found pink flecks in the powder, and the next morning turned the bottle over to his physician, John Clay, for analysis. That evening, Greg and Terry returned to the drugstore where the first purchase had been made, found Tylenol still on sale and bought two more bottles; they discovered more pink flecks in the capsules. Last week word came back from laboratories in Rockville, Md., and San Francisco: strychnine, commonly sold...