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...than 230,000 West Virginians now get such provisions. This year the Kennedy Administration has placed $144 million worth of defense contracts in the state, quadrupling the amount awarded by the Eisenhower Administration in its last year. Kennedy has approved a 172-mile highway from the Pennsylvania border to Charleston, W.Va. An increased federal relief program has put some 15,000 men to work at $1 an hour cleaning up the state's littered roadsides and shabby towns. Three thousand displaced miners and other unemployed workers have been retrained and placed in new jobs. In last week...
...Charlotte, N.C., Observer, the news from Charleston, S.C., 120 miles to the southeast, made a considerable splash last week. "At least seven downtown merchants here," wrote the Observer in a two-column story datelined Charleston, "have hired Negroes as clerks or cashiers under pressure of a seven-week buying boycott. It is the biggest breakthrough of Negroes into white-collar jobs in the city, and probably in the state." But in Charleston itself, where the boycott has been in effect since March 17, the story rated nary a line in either the News & Courier (circ. 61,500) or the jointly...
Western jazz has long been a steady favorite. The Charleston is back in vogue, suggesting that reactionary elements are freely at work in the pop music field. Prague's favorite tune last week was Come on Grandma, Teach Me the Charleston. Sample lyric: Grandma, leave the pullover alone. There is still plenty of time till Christmas. I'll knit half a yard for you tomorrow, If you come and teach me the Charleston...
More fascinating even than the Czech Charleston is the country's ideological twist between Moscow and the Albania-China faction. Officially, Czechoslovakia backs Moscow, but Premier Antonin Novotny is an old Stalinist. Not only have the Czechs managed to keep on trading with Albania, but they have acted as Russia's representatives at Tirana since the Soviets severed diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Prague's huge Stalin monument, which Novotny had promised to destroy, still stands. Some Prague wags suggest a solution for that: paint the monument black and rename it the Patrice Lumumba memorial...
...Other shows this month: Philadelphia, Washington. Chica.iiO. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Charleston, S.C.. and Houston...