Word: charlestoning
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...through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores and marcelled flappers doing the Charleston evoke the era's political menace and cabaret decadence...
Meanwhile, some feed-lot operators have discovered that they can turn a helpful profit from a product that is literally under their noses. Among other feed-lot operators, Ohio Feed Lot Inc. of South Charleston, Ohio, has been selling 50-lb. sacks of fertilizer made from "purified animal byproduct"-a euphemism for manure. At about $2 per sack, says O.F.L. President John Sawyer, selling the manure is "sometimes more profitable than selling beef...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a social-dance class that began during the semester break attracted 109 nostalgic students instead of the expected 20 to 30, all eager to learn not the latest rock steps but the dances their parents once did: the rumba, jitterbug, foxtrot, waltz, tango, Charleston, even the polka. Says Instructor Harry Brauser: "These dances serve as a contact point between generations. Kids are now interested in what their parents experienced; everything their parents did is no longer looked down upon...
...President feared that punishing Radford and Welander might somehow cause more diplomatic secrets to be revealed to the public. Radford was shifted to Salem, Ore., where he now works as a personnel administrator at the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center. Welander was sent to Charleston, S.C.; he commanded a flotilla of destroyers there until May 1973, when he became an Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. In June 1972, Nixon reappointed Moorer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. To prevent future military snooping, Kissinger abolished the Joint Chiefs' liaison with the Security Council...
...prevented by law from seeking another. Furthermore, Viet Nam has not tarnished one whit the tradition of gentlemen warriors in the Palmetto State. Westmoreland returned home a genuine hero who would likely have no trouble pulling in votes. Last week an audience of 130 at the Charleston Rotary Club laughed knowingly and heartily when, in a slip, a member introduced Westy as "the Governor...