Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concentrating in the Charleston (S.C.)-Charlotte-Atlanta triangle, where the amphetamine traffic seemed heaviest, two inspectors driving a borrowed, repainted Army trailer-truck spent six weeks making buys at the spots turned up in the preliminary survey. At one drugstore they had no trouble buying 2,000 pep pills, saying they wanted to peddle them to other drivers. But a second druggist was smarter: he took $55 from the inspectors for a thousand pills that turned out to be aspirin...
...been an issue, and that the Club's position on the fee had been explained. No contracts had been signed, he observed, and the $300 fee that had been agreed upon was inadequate to pay for the additional costs necessitated by going out of the way en route from Charleston, S.C., to Jacksonville...
...Southern Case. More dignified than the extremists is another group of stalwart prosegregation papers typified by the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier (circ. 53,286). It occasionally offends rabid racists by printing constructive news of the Negro community, and its editor, Thomas R. Waring, appeared in Harper's Magazine gently pleading "The Southern Case Against Desegregation...
...evening's end, it was plain that Porgy was effectively spreading good will for the U.S. Thirteen times during the opera about life on the waterfront in Charleston, S.C., the Russian audience burst into frenzied applause. As the lights went up, many in the audience had tear-stained faces. Shouting and stamping their feet, the crowd gave the cast an 8½-minute ovation. The second night the nation's top leaders-Khrushchev, Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan-were on hand, staying through a couple of curtain calls and applauding vigorously. Gasped the artistic director of Moscow...
Porgy shocked the Russians with its portrayal of life in the raw and sex in the open along Catfish Row on the Charleston, S.C. waterfront. The audience reacted with gasps. But at the final curtain they rushed the stage and gave the cast a ten-minute ovation. Radio Moscow called it "a great success...