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...over the American West, billboards touting such curiosities as 60-ft. cacti and petrified armadillos lure travelers from the interstates to the tourist emporiums of dusty towns. Lacking any such magnet, Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,000), a farming and ranching center nine miles from the Texas border, was long, in the words of Local Merchant Leon ("Buster") Zinck, "a forgotten city?even in Albuquerque." But no more. Now Clayton's Union County Fairgrounds boast a unique attraction: a 100-ft.-tall windmill, the first in the land to be built by the Government to supply electricity...
...disaffection within the Democratic Party toward Carter arises from the increasingly obvious nature of his political conservatism. The Washington Post columnist Clayton Fritchey recently wrote that Carter is the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland, who was first elected in 1884. That this is apparently so is illustrated in Fritchey's article, quoting Carter's summation of his January 19 State of the Union address: "Government cannot solve our problems. It cannot set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty, or provide a bountiful economy, or reduce inflation, or save our cities, or cure illiteracy...
Ralph and Dick knew their stuff. Avid readers of Marx and Mao, Lenin and Trotsky, they impressed Clayton Van Lydegraf with their grasp of revolutionary ideology. Lydegraf, 62, a Communist Party member since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core...
Miller, the low amateur in this year's U.S. Open, defeated England's Peter McEvoy two up. Fought and Heafner, the son of former touring pro Clayton Heafner, both won their matches four and three. Simpson, who won back-to-back NCAA golf crowns while playing for USC, closed out former Scottish Amateur Champion Gordon Murray seven...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Dolores Hrabosky, 27; from Al Hrabosky, 28, St. Louis Cardinal ace relief pitcher, nicknamed the "Mad Hungarian" because of his unsettling mannerisms on the mound; after seven years of marriage; in Clayton, Mo. Says Hrabosky, who admits to practicing psy-war on batters: "If my mother was up at the plate, I'd hit her. I'm not the nice guy everyone makes...