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Until a few months ago, the only place where Dale Bumpers was known and admired was the Ozark foothills town of Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,353), where he is choir director and lead baritone at the Methodist church. He is the city attorney because he is the town's only lawyer, and he has at one time or another represented nearly every business firm, plaintiff, criminal and divorcee in the community's recent history. Outside of Charleston, Bumpers was so unknown that shortly after he decided last spring to run for Governor, one computer sampling showed that...
...Charleston, S.C., where the water falls below Public Health Service standards and procedures for handling chlorine used in purifying water are "unsafe...
...friend Maisie. She is a winning girl with a saucy comic style and enough sizzling energy to set the floorboards smoking. All of the dance numbers are a delight, though they have been meticulously stylized, rather as if a Kabuki troupe had been taught to do the Charleston. The evening's fun is poured sparingly, except when Sandy Duncan sluices it out in a champagne flood...
...about that same time the miners of West Virginia figured they'd had enough. They finally had a spokesman?a tough old doctor named I. F. B?ff, who lived in Charleston and liked to talk to coal miners. Whenever he could get them together, he talked, and they listened...
...million a day, went to the courts for an injunction, and were refused. Finally, on the last day of the legislative session, the legislature cleared a bill. Three days later. Moore signed it into law: and the miners, in triumph, went back to work. "This time." said an awestruck Charleston TV news analyst. "the pros were outmaneuvered by the amateurs. And I say, good for the miners. I just wish more average citizens would become amateur lobbyists...