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USABDA to host
dance at The Barn
The Greater Columbia Chapter
of the U.S. Amateur Ballroom
Dancers Association will hold its
monthly dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
at the Hugh Dimmery Memor
ial Center (The Barn), 680 Cherokee
Lane. A complimentary dance
lesson will be offered at 7:45 p.m.
Admission is $4 for national USABDA
members, $7 for non-members
and $3 for students. Non-alcohobc
refreshments will be avaihble.
All social and competitive dancers,
. as well as spectators with an interest
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USABDA is a non-profit, charitable,
educational organization,
which is dedicated to the promotion
of amateur ballroom dancing for social
dancers, competitors and the
public.
The Greater Columbia chapter
was established several years ago
and sponsors monthly dances for the
enjoyment of those in the Midlands
with an interest in dance.
The USABDA teaches waltz, foxtrot,
tango, cha cha, samba, mambo,
rumba and swing.
For more information, call
Michael A. Verdone at 957-9259.
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be moot if Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law
died on impact. New radar
data showed the plane was diving at a
rate up to 10 times normal just before
it disappeared from radar.
A newspaper reported Tuesday that
the airplane's registration papers had
washed ashore Saturday at beachfront
property owned by Kennedy and his
sister.
On board the plane were Kennedy,
38; wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, 33;
and her sister Lauren Bessette, 34.
Kennedy, the pilot, planned to drop off
his sister-in-law on Martha's Vineyard
and then continue to his cousin's
wedding in Hyannis Port.
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property owned by Kennedy and
his sister, the Cape Cod Times reported
Tuesday quoting unidentified sources
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Radar information showed that
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equivalent to 4,700 feet per minute, a
speed some experts said was nearly 10
times normal.
"The normal rate of descent
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700 feet per minute for passenger comfort,"
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Pilots Association.
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dive, not a descent," added Drew Steketee,
the group's senior vice president.
Robert Pearce, the National Transportation
Safety Board's chief investigator
in the case, was reluctant to characterize
the rate of descent as unusual.
"There are various normal rates,
and it's difficult to try to compare at
this time," he said Monday.
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July 18
? Malicious injury to real property,
Pickens Street Bridge. An oficer
observed graffiti spraypainted
with black paint on the northeast
ind southeast walls of the bridge.
Estimated value: $200.
July 16
* Malicious injury to personal
property, Douglas loading zone. A
complainant said someone bent and
eroke the radio antenna on his
car. Estimated value: $15.
July 15
Malicious injury to real property,
Barnwell College. A comelainant
said someone painted grafiti
in front of the building.
Graffiti also was found on a corner
)f the McKissick Museum building.
July Id
Larceny of bike, McBiyde Quad angle.
A complainant said some>ne
stole a $600 mountain bike from
he TKE lounge and damaged a television
stand and bookshelf there,
welve cans of spraypaint also were
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