Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project this engaging moodiness are John Gilmore's thin-edged tenor sax, Bobby Hutcherson's delicate vibes, the attentive probings of Bassist Richard Davis and the irregular cymbals of Drummer Joe Chambers. The group's finest moments come in The Groits, which, despite its ugly name, consists of lovely integrated weavings of Hill's almost Monkish chords, Hutcherson's melodic accents and Davis' bass designs...
Nixiecrat. The Southerners are now attempting to keep Humphrey from breaking toward the liberal side in his effort to mollify the followers of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Last week a group of party leaders proposed a Southern running mate for Humphrey, mentioning seven prospects by name.* Humphrey preferred to remain politely vague. Nonetheless, in Mississippi he is backing the biracial insurgent delegate slate, a direct slap at the old-time leaders. And last week he coined the term Nixiecrat to disparage Nixon's association with conservative Southerners like Thurmond, who led the Dixiecrat revolt...
...Ibos off from their oil and their coastline. Meanwhile, Ojukwu expelled Northerners from his region and built up his army. In the early hours of May 30, 1967, at a champagne reception in the regional capital of Enugu, he announced the creation of a new republic. Its name: Biafra, after the Bight of Biafra, off the Atlantic coastline to the south...
...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unoffical headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of 'a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...
...pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name, for they have no proof that he is dead. "No death certificate, no anything...