Word: charlestoning
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...maintenant," shouts the announcer triumphantly, "voici Les Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...enthusiasm of the occasion. He spun his wife around in a Viennese waltz and a polka, went a few fast fox trots with his 17-year-old daughter Susan, who took off her shoes in a display of considerable confidence. Later, Scranton performed a three-minute Charleston solo, causing a startled observer to exclaim, "Can you imagine what the Democrats will do with a picture of Scranton spread out in a Charleston position?'' He got a quick answer from another G.O.P. lady: "Wasn't he just great? It shows we've got a real human being...
...South Carolina's state-run Clemson College, which rejected Harvey Gantt, 19, a Charleston mechanic's son who made the National Honor Society in high school, went on to Iowa State as an architectural engineering student. Gantt's request for admission to Clemson is before Federal Judge Cecil C. Wyche, 77, a fair-minded South Carolinian who is expected to rule in Gantt's favor if Clemson fails to disprove discrimination...
...also becoming increasingly worried about the estimated 70 Il-28 ''Beagle" jet bombers that had been shipped into Cuba by the Soviet Union. Armed with nuclear bombs, the planes have a combat radius of 750 miles-far enough to reach New Orleans, Montgomery, Ala., and Charleston. S.C. The Administration last week was telling the Russians at the U.N. that the planes must go, along with the missiles. But the Russians blandly said that the bombers were Cuban property, and Castro vowed they would never be returned...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations states that it was said by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when Minister to the French Republic in 1797. A footnote says, "Inscribed on the cenotaph in his memory in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C. What Pinckney really said was more forcible, 'not a damned penny for tribute...