Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going on. Ironically, they even made things worse for Johnson by solicitously singling him out at inspections to ask him how he was doing. Why did Johnson say nothing? "I'm not a crybaby," he explains. Now he would like to try again, and has asked Governor Hulett Smith to reinstate him in the academy. Last week Smith promised a full investigation...
...months ago, however, several outstanding black athletes decided to risk sacrificing the success athletic achievement might bring. Led by a sociology professor from California, they voted to boycott the 1968 Olympics. As world record holding sprinter Tommie Smith said, they were willing to give up participation in the Games, "if it means that it will open a channel by which the oppression and injustice suffered by [our] people in America can be alleviated...
...blacks say a major part of the boycott is to show the less privileged Negroes still in the ghettos that the athletes have not forgotten them. Boycotters like Tommie Smith have decided it is time for blacks to disabuse America of the notion that Negroes have "rhythm" but no brains. They hope their sacrifice will be an inspiration to the youngsters still in the ghetto. They have elected to scrap the inspiration of athletic glory for the dubious rewards of a political burden. It is a courageous but tragically misguided decision...
Defenseman Ben Smith skated the length of the ice and swung the puck into the middle. Wing Pete Mueller carried an Eagle defenseman past the puck and Garrity zoomed in for a setup seven-footer...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...