Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...