Word: charlestoning
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...William Mullen, 30, and photographed by Ovie Carter, 29, on famine in Africa and India. The Boston Globe won the gold medal for public service for its "massive and balanced" coverage of the school busing crisis. The Pulitzer for editorial writing went to John Daniell Maurice of the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail for his calming editorials on the textbook controversy in the state's Kanawha County...
GENERAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, 61, former commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, retired in Charleston, S.C.: "It was heartbreaking, but it was not surprising. I've gone through the anguish of seeing Viet Nam deteriorate bit by bit. I must say the process has been more rapid than I thought would be the case. It was a sad day in the glorious history of our country. But elements in this country have been working for this end. We failed. We let an ally down. But it was inevitable after Congress pulled the rug out from under the President...
...ghetto there all during her childhood, Josephine Baker became a dancer to keep warm. As she grew into international fame as a stage and cabaret performer, the heat stayed on. New York had never seen anything quite like the red-hot way she sang and shimmied the Charleston and black bottom at the old Plantation Club. Paris, to which she moved in 1925 at age 19, had never seen anything like her at all. At the Folies-Bergere, she gave lessons in how to make an entrance. Down she would come on a mirrored platform clad in a bunch...
...Charleston...
Similar ads in other pockets of prosperity around the U.S. have been popping up since the middle of December, along with bumper stickers reading I'M NOT BUYING RECESSION and even an occasional billboard. Read one in Charleston, S.C., where unemployment was only 3.2%: WELCOME TO CHARLESTON. THE RECESSION ENDS HERE. Charleston, in fact, is where the contagious campaign originated with Manley Eubank, a Ford automobile dealer. Worried that Americans were talking themselves into a recession, he decided to do something about it. The first spate of ads and bumper stickers appeared after Eubank got the Charleston Automobile Dealer...