Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dallas 31, Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia 114, Kansas City...
DIED. Stephen S. Gardner, 56, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1974-76); of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As the patrician chairman of Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors...
...Lasker Foundation awarded two other 1978 prizes, each also worth $15,000. The Clinical Medical Research Award was shared by three scientists: Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, for developing a vaccine that could prevent three quarters of the nation's estimated 750,000 annual cases of pneumococcal pneumonia; Dr. Emil Gotschlich of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who developed a vaccine that is 90% effective against meningococcal meningitis; and Dr. Michael Heidelberger of New York University, for research that helped produce both vaccines...
Minnesota 28, Philadelphia...