Word: smithing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Consider Charlie Smith, who last week celebrated what he calculated to be his 125th birthday in Bartow, Fla. A spry ex-slave, Charlie runs a small cold-drink and candy shop and thrives on raw sausages, crackers, 7UP, and telling people how old he is. Naturally, he has his secrets of longevity: "I never drink no green [plain] milk-only chocolate. I don't eat no table food-cooked stuff is not too good...
John Braden has designed an effective set, and his lighting is most dramatic. Lew Smith's costumes are, as usual, colorful enough to make a peacock blush and wonderful to behold...
Last week, only a few days after Rhodesia announced its crop crisis, Britain sent an emissary to see if the Ian Smith regime was ready to talk. London's Financial Times was not optimistic: "Recent events must have confirmed the white Rhodesians in their view that the British balance of payments is in a worse state than their own, and that it is from the British side that concessions are likely to come first." Nevertheless, Britain's policy appears to have dour long-range implications for the Rhodesian economy. Because of sanctions, general exports from Rhodesia...
Born. To Maggie Smith, 32, ebullient, rusty-haired member of London's National Theater Company (Desdemona to Sir Laurence Olivier's Othello) and film actress (The V.I.P.s), and Fellow Company Actor Robert Stephens, 36, versatile screen performer (Morgan!): their first child, a 7½lb. boy named Christopher, whose premature arrival (by caesarean section) occasioned the announcement that the couple was married (she for the first time, he for the second) secretly last month; in London...
HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES (N.Y.) John K. Galbraith, D.LET., economist...