Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drama were all that counted, the meeting that began last week between Harold Wilson of Britain and Ian Smith of rebellious Rhodesia would have been assured of success. The two men had not spoken to each other since November of last year, and the months since then were marked by Rhodesia's declaration of independence, British economic sanctions against Rhodesia and an air of general hostility. Then one stormy night last week, Wilson's R.A.F. Comet landed in Gibraltar, and two hours later an R.A.F. Britannia brought Smith in from Salisbury...
...unseen from the airport to the docks. There they climbed aboard an R.A.F. rescue launch and were taken to the cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, which was anchored half a mile offshore in Algeciras Bay. Dog tired, and somewhat unsettled by the heavy swells of the sea, Wilson and Smith met briefly in the wood-paneled captain's quarters of the Tiger, then went to bed. Two hours after dawn, the cruiser weighed anchor, wallowed out into the stormy straits and headed eastward into the Mediterranean. Except for their advisers and the Tiger's somewhat baffled crew, Wilson and Smith...
...Republicans? Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican Party. The G.O.P. picked up two House seats, one in the Ninth District (Appalachia), and one in the Eighth, Howard W. Smith's old district, and probably could have taken another in the Third District (Richmond and surrounding counties) had they run a candidate against the incumbent Democrat this fall. Nevertheless the Republicans face serious problems. They have not been able to build up an effective statewide organizations; local offices have largely been left to the Democratic Party in return for the late Sen. Harry Byrd's "golden silence"--his refusal to support...
...usual comments about the demise of the Byrd Organization in Virginia were heard once again after the Democratic primary last summer and the general election this fall. The two symbols of the old order, Rep. Howard W. Smith, the House Rules Committee chairman, and Senator A. Willis Robertson lost their seats in Congress in close primary fights, and the Republican Party picked up two more seats in Virginia's delegation to the House on November 8. They now control four...
Married. Merriman Smith, 53, United Press International's dean of the White House press corps whose honor it is to end news conferences with the familiar "Thank you, Mr. President"; and Gailey Johnson, 33, a California decorator; both for the second time; in Alexandria...