Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Central Park was packed with almost a quarter of a million people last week as the New York Philharmonic exploded into John Philip Sousa and giant skyrockets burst above the band shell. A festival is Chicago Secretary Janice Simpson puzzling over whether she should go hear Lonnie Listen Smith at the Miller beer Jazz Stage or Muddy Waters at the Olympia beer Blues Stage, playing at almost the same time at ChicagoFest, where more than 500,000 trooped to the city's old brick and metal Navy Pier last week...
...other side, Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa called the Commonwealth proposal "an insult" to his "government of national unity." Former Prime Minister Ian Smith, now a Minister Without Portfolio in Muzorewa's government, dismissed the results of the Lusaka conference as "so much hot air" and suggested that Rhodesians "forget about new elections." In South Africa, which has close ties with Salisbury, Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha declared that his government was "deeply disturbed." South Africa was reported to be considering military support for Muzorewa if he decides to reject the Commonwealth proposals...
...Just now, various parties must react in a certain way." His colleague, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, said flatly: "The Patriotic Front [leaders] are going to a constitutional conference called by the decolonizing power." Nyerere suggested, however, that the British government might have a much harder time getting the Muzorewa-Smith bloc to the conference table. Snapped back Mrs. Thatcher: "If Julius Nyerere can deal with his problem," i.e., producing the guerrilla leaders, "I hope he will accept that I can deal with mine...
Moreover, they have testified before a number of Senate committees, prompting Senators "to initiate energy conservation proposals which might not have been proposed," Peter Smith, a staff member of the Senate Energy Committee, said yesterday...
...Lene Lovich: Stateless (Stiff/Epic) arrive via England from that paragon of excellent eccentricity, Stiff Records, where these young women are not only la-belmates but exemplars of the two extremes of rock vocal styles, contemporary female division. Lovich seems to have tak en vocal seminars from Nico and Patti Smith. Her songs (many co-written by Lovich) are feckless threnodies about lovelessness, entrapment and alienation. Sweet, who is sunnier in disposition, lays down a sort of teasing, jailbait rock that relies on snappy melodies and gum-cracking sensuality...