Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least seven C.J. Fox portraits of bygone legislators hang in House committee rooms in Washington. A C.J. Fox painting of Brothers Charles and William Mayo is in Washington's National Portrait Gallery. In fact, the name C.J. Fox adorns the mediocre likenesses of hundreds of wealthy and famous Americans, both living and dead. They include Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Oilman H.L. Hunt, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, AFL-CIO President George Meany and Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...thatched roof and sides out of wattle (interwoven hazel branches) and daub (mud and animal hair). Making a loaf of bread the Celtic way took nearly a day. Fashioning clay storage pots took longer, and the early pottery tended to crack over the fire-until the novices got the hang of their craft. Says Helen Elphick: "We were all very frustrated...
...executive, and a graduate of a private school south of Denver. Two years older than Jim, he was a sophomore pre-med at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) when he won the Telluride contest. Bob was a tremendous skier, and well-known in Boulder as an excellent hang-glider pilot. He was bright, and although he did not aspire to academic success, he respected it and sometimes achieved...
...flew to Denver March 24, 1976, for spring break, planning to meet Bob in a few days and go climbing and backpacking in the Grand Canyon. But the next evening, Mary Lyn called Jim and told him Bob had had an accident on the 24th while flying his hang glider off Point Fermin, California...
Poughkeepsie was the first city to act on the NYPIRG report, setting aside $250,000 for a new water purification system that would filter out carcinogens, Hang said. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given cities along the Hudson little assistance in coping with the problem...