Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most African states were seething at British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's efforts to reach a settlement with Ian Smith's breakaway white regime in Rhodesia. Singapore and Malaysia deplored Britain's planned military withdrawal from points east of Suez. Australia and New Zealand were unhappy about London's hankerings to join Europe's Common Market, a move that would cost them dearly in tariff concessions. Four East African members that are anxious to get rid of their Asian minorities (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) were outraged because Britain was not willing to take them...
...Students Union. The militants were also out in force at Brandeis, the University of Minnesota and San Fernando Valley State College, at Wittenberg University in Ohio, Queens College in New York and Swarthmore. In deference to the sudden death last week of Swarthmore's president, Dr. Courtney C. Smith, 52, Afro-American Students Society members ended their occupation of the admissions office, but indicated that their grievances would still have to be resolved by the college...
What all the black students want, fundamentally, is more equality, better facilities for themselves, more courses tailored to what they regard as their own needs-and above all, recognition of themselves as black people with their own history, heroes and culture. Michael Smith of Northwestern, where black students last spring briefly occupied the bursar's office (and thereby won an all-Negro center), defends the students desire for apartheid. "They say we are reverse racists, but the fraternity guys are mainly WASPS with money," he argues. "None of them really wants to associate with...
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...Welcome. At 31, Bowen could well afford to subsidize a whole chain of shoe-repair shops. He and his wife, Singer Keely Smith, receive about 100 business and social visitors a week at their twelve-room North Hollywood house, which has a big black-and-orange piano in the poolroom, a private studio and a swimming pool out back, and a brass plaque on the front door that says: "Our house is open to sunshine, friends, guests...