Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
Party bosses come to conventions in all shapes and sizes. Consider the contrast between Victor Smith, Illinois Republican state chairman, and Jesse Unruh, Democratic speaker of the California assembly...
...Smith is slim, white-haired, countrified in speech, friendly in manner. He publishes the tiny (circ. 2,000) weekly Argus in the midstate town (pop. 7,400) of Robinson. He golfs and fishes, is a Rotarian and a former statewide vice president of the Elks. Fascinated newsmen describe him as the healer who wound up as Illinois Republican chairman in 1960 because, in a party ripped and bloodied with faction, "he was the only man nobody...
...Smith has attended every convention since 1944; he supported Dewey, Taft and Goldwater. He now "leans" toward Nixon, though "I'm not a zealot for him like some members of the delegation. I think that people who've been in the political process as I have are comfortable with Dick Nixon, I've always trusted him and felt grateful to him, I could feel this way about Rockefeller or Reagan if I knew them better, but I don't, There's the old saying here-stay with a friend...
...Shirts. In Watts and other mostly Negro areas of Los Angeles, "Operation Bootstrap," sponsored by private and corporate donations, operates a dozen storefront schools, giving instruction in such courses as computer programming, Swahili, and microwelding. "We consider everything that goes on here a school," says Co-Founder Lou Smith. Aimed primarily at preparing dropouts for available jobs rather than college, the program helps pay its own way by mining the talents of the students, who have published books on Afro-American history and designed African-style shirts and dresses that were featured at a fashion show at Las Vegas...