Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money-losing American Motors, it has no brand-new cars, but it has streamlined all the old ones, changed the name of its Classic to Rebel. Last week A.M.C.'s Executive Vice President Roy D. Chapin Jr., 51, was upgraded in title to general manager; the word was that if American's '67s do not sell well, Chapin will take over the top job from President Roy Abernethy...
...16th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, and the primary issue was Rhodesia. Last January, Britain's Harold Wilson had talked the Commonwealth's nine African nations into going along with his policy of economic sanctions as the best way to topple Ian Smith's white rebel regime and prepare the way for handing the government over to Rhodesia's repressed black majority. But the sanctions have not worked, and Wilson last week faced a different kind of rebellion...
...birth control clinics of France and Scotland, she listened, watched, learned, then returned to publish, write and edit a magazine called Woman Rebel. Its motto: "No Gods, No Masters." Her first editorial promised subsequent stories on birth control; postal inspectors grabbed up copies, and she was indicted on nine counts of sending birth control information through the mails. Deciding she needed time to prepare her defense, she left her three children with a nurse. Without court permission, without a passport, and under the alias "Bertha Watson," she left on a midnight train for Montreal and thence to Europe...
...Woman!" By the time she returned to stand trial a year later, she had begun to attract public support. Besides, the first issue of Woman Rebel had only promised the illegal stories; it had not delivered them. The Govern ment withdrew its indictment...
Seventeen of the 23 nations in the Commonwealth are predominantly black, brown or yellow. Thus, on the basis of membership alone, the Commonwealth might be expected to deal harshly with the rebel regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia, where 220,000 whites now rule 4,000,000 black Africans. But British Prime Minister Har old Wilson has ruled out the use of force against Rhodesia, insisting that economic sanctions will compel Smith to back down. So this week, as the 16th Commonwealth conference begins in London, Wilson faces a crisis over Rhodesia that threatens to tear apart the British-reared...