Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City's embattled Mayor John V. Lindsay was on his way to Charleston, S.C., to speak to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a vice president of drugmaker Bristol-Myers was flying to the same meeting in the company's jet. How about a lift? asked the Bristol-Myers man. Thanks, said the mayor and he climbed aboard. Then the city's Democratic politicians heard about the ride. They remembered that Section 1106 of the City Charter forbids city employees to accept "any valuable gift" in the form of a "service, loan, thing or promise" from...
...Their 140-ton craft was helplessly tossed about in the rush of water and actually shoved 28 miles west-out of the stream. They were nearly as surprised by what seemed to be huge coral formations at an unprecedented depth of 1,700 feet-indicating that the coastline around Charleston, S.C., once lay 70 miles farther out in the Atlantic...
...Rockefeller IV, 32, son of John D. III and nephew of Republican Governors Nelson and Winthrop, himself recently elected Secretary of State of West Virginia on the Democratic ticket, and Sharon Percy Rockefeller, 24, daughter of Illinois' Republican Senator Charles Percy: their first child, a boy; in Charleston...
...ordeal of Charleston had seemed impossible to remedy. During the 100-day strike by nonprofessional black hospital workers, there were mass arrests, curfews, patrols by the National Guard, the threat of a sympathy strike that would have closed the port and the ever-present possibility of serious racial violence. Every attempt at settlement collapsed-until last week...
...week's end, the strikers were gearing for a bitter struggle. They vowed to make night marches through white neighborhoods all summer. The International Longshoremen's Association privately told McNair that it would close down the busy port of Charleston if the strike is not settled promptly...