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...verge of accomplishing the second. In South Carolina's primary last July, he outpolled six other candidates, then went on to trounce favored Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn in the runoff. He was expected to have no trouble defeating Republican State Senator James Edwards, 47, a Charleston dentist with a right-wing following, in the November election. But in his zeal to succeed, Ravenel failed to read-or heed-the fine print in the state constitution...
Erotica in Charleston...
...visiting in Charleston, W. Va., during the height of the furor over textbooks, and it was truly a frightening experience. Voices of reason there will tell you that most of the books under attack are used in classrooms all across the country. They were carefully selected by professional educators, who surely are better qualified to judge than fundamentalist preachers and their wives. Truth, justice and Christianity, not to mention education, will not be served if the book burners have their way. Mrs. Therell Anscott Atlanta...
Strife is familiar enough to West Virginia, a state with a history of chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed...
...included a talk about football and about working together. It struck Moore that there were only three presidential aides in attendance. He recalled that in the previous years the walls had been papered with those young, eager staff members that inhabited the White House. Back in Charleston, the Governor pondered the pleasant interlude. "We had the impression," he said, "that we were most welcome." Everywhere there was the feeling that the American presidency was back in the possession of the people...