Word: smiths
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...story was researched by Senior Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and written by Associate Editor William E. Smith, who was Nairobi bureau chief in the 1960s and has written many of our Africa stories during the past eight years. "When I arrived in Africa, there were already hints of this drama," recalls Smith. "The tension has been building there for a long time, and it is heightened by the fact that all the principals involved are so passionately and irrevocably committed." That passion and commitment have made South Africa one of the most important political stories in the world today...
...South Africa, the last firm bastion of white rule on a predominantly black continent, been so threatened. Nearby Angola and Mozambique, once Portuguese colonial buffer states, have become independent, leftist, black-ruled nations committed to helping the struggle against white rule in South Africa. One way or another, Ian Smith's Rhodesia, where blacks outnumber whites 22 to 1, is destined for majority rule. So is Namibia (South West Africa), the huge, mineral-rich territory that South Africa has governed (originally under a 1920 League of Nations mandate), although an independence formula is still to be agreed upon...
Meredyth, near Middleburg, Va., has been growing hybrids only since 1975 and already produces 85,000 bottles a year. Says Owner Archie Smith: "We're selling almost as quickly as we can get it out." Nearby Piedmont is the state's first commercial vinifera winery, and expects to double its capacity over the next two years. Both Meredyth and Piedmont used to be cattle farms. Says Piedmont's manager, Jim Cockrell, 35, who over the past four years oversaw the transition from cattle farm to vineyard: "It sure beats milking cows twice...
...Women's Varsity Soccer (9-2-1) Bowdon 3-4L Smith 3-1W Boston College 5-0W at Brown 0-2L Princeton 2-0W Vermont 4-0W Tufts 3-1W at Williams 1-1T at Curry 5-0W Stonehill 10-0W Boston Univ. 4-1W at Yale...
...story for soccer was the play of the Four Freshmen, a group not to be confused with the singing ensemble of the same name from California in the early '60s. Mike Smith, Andy Kroenfeld, Alberto Villar and Walter Diaz performed well this year and are expected to do nothing but improve in their remaining three years together...