Word: ultrarightist
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...pilot, soon gravitated into another form of combat: Rhodesian politics. In 1961, when he was chief whip of the ruling United Federal Party, Smith resigned his seat in protest over a proposed constitution that accepted the British demand for greater black representation in government. Backed by an ultrarightist tobacco tycoon, Douglas ("Boss") Lilford, Smith helped found the Rhodesian Front Party, which won the national elections in 1962 on a "white rights" platform. Smith became Prime Minister in 1964 and soon set Rhodesia on the dramatic road to breakaway from Britain...
...supporters voted to toss out a faculty-designed change in the grading system, and began meddling in classrooms. One teacher was told to stop class discussion of Communism; another was reprimanded for mentioning menstruation in a mixed physiology class. Some students, says one history teacher, began taking a blindly ultrarightist line in class-calling federal aid to education "Communistic," for example, and criticizing President Johnson for being friendly with Auto Unionist Walter Reuther. At the same time, Pleasantville was well supplied with right-wing literature, much of it distributed by a cafe owner who asserts that "Communism is infiltrating...
Defense Attorney Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, a foxy ultrarightist who defended S.A.O. Leader Raoul Salan, tried desperately to get the trial postponed. His reason was obvious: the latest S.A.O. ambush,* which almost killed De Gaulle last month, had destroyed any current of sympathy for the defendants...
...Wallasey (Conservative since 1918) Independent Gordon L. Reakes defeated Conservative John Pennington and Independent Major Leonard Harrison Cripps (ultrarightist brother of leftist Sir Stafford Cripps), 12,596-to-6,584-to-1,597. Conservative Pennington, local Tory leader, conceded: "Wallasey has spoken in no uncertain voice and I accept its decision in good part...