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...swing state not because of a moderate disposition (it's no Iowa or New Mexico) but because it encompasses the incongruities of American society, from the bluest of blue-blooded aristocrats on Philadelphia's Main Line to the bluest of blue-collar guys in the bars of Aliquippa. It's urban; it's rural. It's the Mellon Bank; it's the United Mine Workers. It's Swarthmore; it's South Philly. It's Andy Warhol; it's Joe Paterno. In the Republic's early days, someone dubbed Pennsylvania the Keystone State because it was the place where North joined...
...there any social or political parallels between the '60s and today? -Daniel Kolich, Aliquippa, Pa. There's no linear view of the '60s. There's no consensus. When I wrote The Greatest Generation there was a common idea of what that generation was all about. You mention the'60s and you start an argument...
...coach, he is hard on the furniture. "When the players walked in the first day," recalls Payton, "Mike was standing there with his arms folded. He nodded to [Assistant] Ted Plumb, who started calling roll. I thought, 'We're in the Army now.' "Ditka, 46, is from Aliquippa, Pa., and his people are from the Ukraine, Nagurski stock. A Canadian who has lived most of his rich life just across a frozen lake in Minnesota, Bronko, 77, once claimed to have no personal knowledge of summer. That's the Bear toughness. "Some teams are named Smith," Ditka says. "Some...
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...second day on the job, the new coach dropped in on the son of a steelworker in nearby Aliquippa. He went back ten more times in the next few months and finally talked Halfback Tony Dorsett into turning down some 100 other recruiters and coming to Pitt. Dorsett, who became the nation's first freshman All-America in 29 years, now says, "If it weren't for the coaching change, I wouldn't be here." That coup was just for openers. Capitalizing on the university's promise of a virtually blank check and his own folksy...