Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...execution when Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tedesco won on a save-the-mansion ticket, was doomed again by Winner Tedesco when backers failed to raise the $75,000-$100,000 required for its preservation. Status: in doubt, with demolition temporarily staved off by a Superior Court injunction. ¶ Pittsburgh's Allegheny County Jail, part of the massive Romanesque courthouse complex that famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson thought would be judged his finest building. ("If they honor me for the pygmy buildings I have already done, what will they say when Pittsburgh is finished?'') Its heavy...
Branch Rickey, chairman, Pittsburgh Pirates Doctor of Humanics
...particularly to me, since it refers to my father, A. N. Lodygin [producer of the "Russian sun"-Russia's first electric light]. Although he never completed his citizenship, he was devoted to the U.S. His incandescent lamp foreign patents led the Westinghouse Co. to invite him to Pittsburgh in the '90s. My father always said that he had developed the lamp as an incidental part of his heavier-than-air flying machine, which occupied much of his thought. He died in Brooklyn in 1923 at the age of 75, his last years saddened by the civil...
...statistics have shown. Since wide-scale vaccination began in 1955, there have been hundreds of reported cases of paralysis among people who had had one or two shots (only a handful among those who had had three). But in last week's A.M.A. Journal, a University of Pittsburgh team headed by Dr. William McD. Hammon
Winding up their eight-day meeting in Pittsburgh last week, the 1,200 delegates to the first General Assembly of the brand-new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 9) heard these notable recommendations: <| From 2,000 to 2,500 additional ministers should be recruited by 1970, seminary capacity must be doubled, and $25 million must be spent on new churches and seminaries within the next ten years. EUR| More proselyting energy should be expended on Jews. "We would remind our people," said a commission report, "since most Jews are such in name only, that in a spirit...