Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing David. He could not have picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
...John Lewis, 25, and Executive Secretary James Forman, 37, both of whom welcomed white members and ventured some cooperation with less militant civil rights organizations. Elected in their place were two leaders who appear eager to drop whites from their organization: Stokely Carmichael, 24, as chairman, and Mrs. Ruby Smith Robinson, 25, executive secretary...
...Montague-Smith traces the line through Harold's daughter Gytha, who after the fateful day at Senlac Hill wandered to Denmark, where she met and married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. The line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come...
...instigation for the meetings had come from Wilson. Firmly in command after last March's landslide election, he felt that he could deal from a new position of strength with the Rhodesian rebels, who had been stalling in hopes of a Tory victory. For his part, Ian Smith seemed content enough to explore the possibility of escaping from an increasingly uncomfortable domestic situation, which last week saw the price of petrol increase another 17?, to 84? per gal. The discussions, expected to last for at least two weeks, were mainly on practical procedural matters, such as an agenda...
...traitors to the British Crown, the three Rhodesians who arrived in London last week technically faced the penalty of death by hanging. Instead, they were met at London Airport by plainclothesmen and whisked away to an obscure hotel. The three men were representatives of Ian Smith's rebellious white-minority government, and they came on a special safe-conduct dispensation to commence what the British press called "talks about talks," which Prime Minister Harold Wilson hoped might lead to Rhodesia's ending its six-month rebellion and rejoining the Commonwealth...