Word: charlestoning
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...coal miners who assembled last week in Charleston, W. Va., it was an occasion for passing collection plates, singing protest songs and heaping scorn on mine operators. The miners, some of whom wore black arm bands inscribed with skull and crossbones, were demonstrating for protection against "black lung," a disease caused by inhaling coal dust that can lead to illness or death. A form of pneumoconiosis estimated to affect three-fourths of the nation's 135,000 coal workers, black lung has become an increasingly serious problem because modern power-operated mining machines churn up far more dust than...
...Pepita Langley Hall, 31, British authoress who was Author Gordon Langley Hall (Jacqueline Kennedy: A Biography) until a transsexual operation in Baltimore last October; and John Paul Simmons, 22, her Negro steward; both for the first time; in a small Baptist ceremony at the bride's home in Charleston, S.C. Her mother (by adoption), Actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, said that she was pleased with the marriage...
...South Carolina Baptist Convention voted to allow Charleston's Baptist College to negotiate for $2.5 million in federal loans to construct a library and a dormitory. Virginia's Baptist leaders decided to let the trustees of individual institutions determine whether or not to take Government grants. At Fort Worth, delegates to the Baptist General Convention of Texas voted 2,960 to 40 to cut its official ties with the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose was to let the school-which has Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey on its faculty-receive state and federal grants...
...Tillett, it seems, had received the oil from her lover, a fisherman who had taken it as part of his salvage from an abandoned ship drifting toward Cape Hatteras. And what was the ship? Apparently the Patriot, which had set sail from Charleston, S.C., on Dec. 30, 1812, passed through the British blockade and then vanished. Her most important passenger was Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of South Carolina Governor Joseph Alston...
...gone awry. A man of limited talent, Rivers rose to his exalted position as chairman of the Armed Services Committee only through the process of aging and the political savvy to be rhythmically re-elected by his constituents. Thanks to his influence, charge Pearson-Anderson, his home town of Charleston had military installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service on the military committees like a tick on a fat dog." But the authors wander astray when they maintain that he is "America's top security risk" because of his drinking problem. He has gone...