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Flaherty, riding the crest of his immense Pittsburgh popularity, challenged incumbent Schweiker in 1974. Although Western Pennsylvania's masses adored Flaherty for his staunch resistance to a host of special-interest groups, liberal Republican senators from Philadelphia don't fall easily in Pennsylvania. After Schweiker won handily, Flaherty became mayor for a while before going to Washington to work in President Carter's Justice Dept...
Eliot House: Nobody but Eliot family historians and poets with a feel for alliteration will get this one, but it turns out that the elephant was a central theme on the family crest. As for poetics, it's the Eliot Elephants...
...offensive unit, however, failed to rise to the occasion down the stretch. After riding the crest of a mid-season five-game winning streak to a 6-3-1 mark, the offense collapsed, and failed to score any goals at all in the last five games. The season ended with the team sporting mediocre 6-7-2 record...
...offensive unit, however, failed to rise to the occasion down the stretch. After riding the crest of a mid-season five-game winning streak to a 6-3-1 mark, the offense collapsed, and failed to score any goals at all in the last five games. The season ended with the team sporting mediocre 6-7-2 record...
...offensive unit, however, failed to rise to the occasion down the stretch. After riding the crest of a mid-season five-game winning streak to a 6-3-1 mark, the offense collapsed, and failed to score any goals at all in the last five games. The season ended with the team sporting mediocre 6-7-2 record...