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Largest slave population: 37,290 - Charleston County...
...Rubin was born 73 years ago in a coal camp in nearby Lillybrook. He worked at a Laundromat and a newspaper to put himself through local colleges and eventually became a social worker. A veteran, Rubin also became commander of his American Legion post and a vets' advocate in Charleston, the state capital...
...days after the accident and pledged that "scrutiny of this whole situation will be more intense than before." Lee Thomas, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, expressed "a sense of urgency" about tightening Union Carbide's safety measures. (Two days after the Institute crisis, a company plant in South Charleston, W. Va., leaked about 4,000 lbs of an ontoxic mixture used to make hydraulic brake fluid.) The company's beleaguered chairman, Warren Anderson, traveled to West Virginia, where he announced that in the future Union Carbide would sound alarm swarning nearby residents at the first sign of any trouble...
...their industry is among the nation's safest. More rigorous regulation, they argue, would send costs skyrocketing at a time when the industry is facing increased competition from producers such as Saudi Arabia and Mexico and could lead U.S. companies in the future to build plants abroad. In South Charleston last Saturday, about 500 people marched in support of Union Carbide. Yet most residents of West Virginia's Chemical Valley were caught between worries about their safety and about their region's economy. "There's a real dichotomy," said Russell Wehrle, chairman of the National Institute for Chemical Studies...
Harvard stayed in position through the first day of sailing, which it ended just behind the College of Charleston, but on Thursday, the Crimson made its move. Harvard’s A-division, skippered by senior Genny Tulloch with sophomore Emily Simon at crew, blew by the competition—including Old Dominion’s Anna Tunnicliffe, the most dominant figure in women’s college sailing—for first...