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Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia is part of the liberal Northeast, Pittsburgh??is Midwestern, and the center of the state is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh??area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Election Day Guide | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor told Brady that moving pictures would make up its losses. Backed by Brady, he started a chain of cinema "palaces" in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh??? empty stores made into theatres with crude stages and chairs bought second-hand from bankrupt undertaking parlors. He had one real theatre with a piano?the Comedy, in Union Square, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount's Papa | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...telegraph blanks, and as inscrutable? It was hard to be sure. The police, at all events, evinced some interest in the messages; they were also curious to trace certain long distance telephone calls from Boston to obscure places in the Chinese quarters of St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh???calls in which the connection had been requested in carefully articulated English, followed by the rushing speech of a dim voice haranguing in a chant of monosyllables an unseen Oriental a thousand miles away. ... a staccato cry of comprehension. . . . the click of a receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tong | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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