Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy hosts a sing-along with Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Young Americans...
...JAZZ PIANO (RCA Victor). Half a dozen pianists take the stage at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival to give a fine, festive survey of their art. The course starts with Contrary Motion, played by Willie "The Lion" Smith, professor emeritus of the bouncing left-hand "stride" piano, which Duke Ellington gracefully imitates in his impressionistic Second Portrait of the Lion. Starting out ever so simply in Somehow, Earl "Fatha" Hines soon fills all the spaces with increasingly intricate trills and runs. Most emotionally eloquent of the lot, Mary Lou Williams plays 45° Angle and Joycie with declarative force and powerful...
...Smith has shown sufficient interest during the past week to spark speculation about terms of a settlement -- at least in many African capitals. There are rumors that the former governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, might reopen his office as a symbolic gesture. The nation might then be granted independence and be given 50 years to make the transition to majority rule. The rumors of such an arrangement have of course angered a number of African leaders...
...Smith as yet is probably not about to yield even that little to the British demands. Though economic sanctions have undoubtedly slowed down the economy, and at least 2,000 white Rhodesians have trekked across the border into South Africa, substantial aid from South Africa has kept Rhodesia afloat...
...Vorster becomes worried, he may discourage Smith from relying heavily on continued South African support. That in turn would probably force Smith to the negotiating table. And the British meanwhile continue trying to make negotiations as palatable as possible, for at least as long as Wilson can control African dissent...