Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aboard the Fearless, Wilson hinted that if Smith could guarantee the principle of "unimpeded progress toward majority African rule," other matters might be negotiated, such as an extended timetable for giving Africans a larger say in ruling Rhodesia. Wilson has also maintained all along that any new constitution must be acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program...
Commonwealth Wrath. The openings for negotiation at Gibraltar remained as small as the stakes were large. "If I give way on any vital point," said Smith, "I might find 100% of Rhodesians against acceptance." Yet if Wilson backed down, he would have to face the wrath of black nations in the Commonwealth and, humiliatingly, ask the United Nations to withdraw its sanctions. Also, he presumably does not wish to be remembered as the Prime Minister who consigned Rhodesia's black majority to the same apartheid fate as that endured by the blacks of South Africa...
...Smith is a black militant who still digs Stokely Carmichael but has discarded revolution as impractical. "There are greater forces than violence and confrontation," he says. Smith's chosen instrument was Operation Bootstrap (see BUSINESS), a black-owned, black-managed self-help corporation that now runs two African-style dress shops, one in a white suburb, plus a clothing factory, a gas station, a printing company, and a school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says...
Died. George White, 78, theatrical producer, whose flashy, fleshy Scandals vied with Ziegfeld's Follies and Earl Carroll's Vanities as the top Broadway attraction of the 1920s and '30s; of leukemia; in Hollywood. White introduced such future stars as Kate Smith, Ray Bolger, Rudy Vallee and Eleanor Powell to the Great White Way-which he always claimed was named...
...Angeles, two Negro civil rights workers, Robert Hall and Lou Smith, borrowed $1,000 to launch a job-training project. To provide the facilities, they started a service station, a clothing shop, and a firm that sells African-style garments to The May Co. and Bullock's department stores. "We want to create economic black power," says Hall, describing his plans to share profits with his 82 employees. "We want the people of the community to own everything we start...