Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIRST LIEUTENANT) JAMES F. BLOSS Charleston Air Force Base...
After a March wedding in Chicago, Jay and Sharon will live in his $75,000 home in the South Hills section of Charleston. Though Jay's spread occupies 15 well-manicured acres, the house itself is a modest five-room brick structure. But it does boast a large patio, and if Sharon would care to add another amenity or two, she need hardly feel limited by her husband's $1,500-a-year state salary...
...were only allowed to leave the college in groups of three. "It's like the Russian guards in Berlin," explained one seminarian. "If one tries to get away, the other two can shoot him." Things have gradually eased up since the Most Rev. Francis Reh, formerly Bishop of Charleston, S.C., took over as rector in 1964. Reh has abolished such restrictive rules as compulsory lights-out, given seminarians full freedom to leave the college premises whenever they want to-providing that they are home for dinner...
...exceptions to the success story. The 7¾-mile Chicago Skyway has been unable to meet its interest payments on time; the free, federally sponsored Dan Ryan Expressway runs a parallel route, so Chicago Skyway traffic is about half of what was estimated. In West Virginia, a turnpike from Charleston (pop. 85,000) to Princeton (pop. 20,000 and not to be confused with Princeton, N.J.) runs "from nowhere to nowhere," according to critics. The route is losing money because the links with Interstate 64 and Interstate 77 will not be completed until approximately...
Among other charges of inefficiency and influence, G.O.P. critics pointed out that the Kanawha Hotel in Charleston, W. Va., which the Job Corps converted into a women's center for $187,400, plus $90,000 a year in rent, has chiefly benefited a prominent local Democrat named Angus Peyton, who held a sizable interest in the property. To the girls, the hotel became "Peyton's Place," and before long there were charges that some of them were living down to the name by running a prostitution racket. The charges were never proved and were eventually dropped...