Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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boycott would bring Britain into conflict with South Africa and endanger the strong and lucrative trade ties the two share. He fudged on NIBMAR; but to prove that his heart was in the right place, he delivered an ultimatum of sorts to Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Unless Smith agreed to form an "acceptable" government by Christmas, Wilson would ask the U.N. to impose mandatory sanctions on Rhodesian pig iron, chrome and asbestos...
...seems a vain hope. Ten months after Smith declared independence, Rhodesia is as calm and nearly as prosperous as ever. Salisbury's streets are clogged with cars-whose tanks are filled with gasoline sneaked across the border from South Africa and Mozambique. Factories are still running at nearly full speed, and white unemployment is virtually nonexistent. The country can import whatever it likes from South Africa. There is a desperate shortage of golf balls, and Rhodesian whites are having to make do with locally produced candy, clothing and false teeth, but nothing essential is missing from the shelves...
...Choice. The fact is that Smith has never been stronger. His whites are solidly behind him; although political opposition is still legal, none exists. Last week the Rhodesian High Court, whose members had opposed seizing independence from the start, handed down a decision that assured Smith of at least reluctant collaboration. Turning down an appeal by two men who had been imprisoned without trial at the time of independence, the justices ruled that the Smith government, although "illegal," was in effective control of the country -and that the court had to go along with its dictates...
...inconvenience, Morse erected an 8-ft.-high chain-link fence around the tree, hired two gatekeepers and began charging visitors 50? admission to touch the magic acacia and carry its liquid away in pop bottles. His curiosity piqued by the spreading excitement over the acacia, Tree Surgeon Grover Smith arrived from nearby Harlingen, and somehow climbed the tree without Morse's knowledge. His deflating conclusion, which was printed in the local press: insects had bored "into a little old bitty knothole and the tree just started bleeding." It was sap, not water, flowing out of the tree, Smith insisted...
...dailies had picked up the habit of accumulating columnists, and last week Conniff faced the task of finding space for Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...