Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILES Charleston...
...mountains surrounding Frenchman's Flat, the newsmen barred from the proving grounds (see PRESS) watched a 60-m.p.h. gale drive the atomic cloud toward Las Vegas. The AEC said that the cloud traveled at 40,000 ft., but on Charleston Peak a reporter at the 8,000-ft. level said the cloud passed directly over him about 1,000 ft. up. His shoes showed 10 milliroentgens of radiation, his car over 20 milliroentgens (50 to 100 roentgens are dangerous...
...look like the Cheshire cat." As she answered reporters' questions she pleaded: "Don't say I'm gracious and charming. You'll ruin my reputation." For the benefit of a middle aged, overwhelmed reporter who had kissed her hand, she graciously jiggled through the Charleston until her stockings began...
...Texarkana, Ark., Allentown, Pa., Monroe, La., Springfield, Mo., Meriden, Conn., Lorain, Ohio, and in Huntington, Beckley and Charleston...
Selfridge also kept himself in the public eye. In the '203 all London society attended his fabulous champagne election parties on the top floor of Selfridge's, danced the Charleston to the music of five bands. When things got dull the guests watched a boxing kangaroo...