Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often as five times a week, won as many as 100 games a year. Once he fired a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago and pitched a 12-inning shutout the next afternoon. He became a folk hero to ball fans-black and white...
...firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm that has Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. for a client. In the House, Moore "champions" restrictions on imports of competing glass...
Some artists have to be introduced to the intricacies of lithography, serigraphy and other techniques. Others have to be guided in making their lettering readable at a glance. Quite a few get carried away with the fun of it all. With a special edition of her 1967 Pittsburgh International poster interweaving script, numbers and a fanciful Mideast landscape, Mary Bauermeister threw in a set of hand-painted wood cutouts. Collectors can glue them on and make it a collage...
...snorts, "but they don't holler at me in the majors." They certainly don't. Spraying hits from either side of the plate, Rightfielder Rose has batted better than .300 in each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (.330) for National League batting honors. Equally notable is his penchant for playing every second as if his spikes were hot out of the forge, with a headlong slide here, a diving catch there, and everywhere a run, run, run. "If I had eight Pete Roses," says...
...stands, even though the company (now called MCA Inc.) stopped handling talent in 1962 under threat of a Justice Department antitrust suit. Besides TV production, MCA has major interests in moviemaking (Universal Pictures), recording (Decca Records) and real estate (Universal City). Last week it agreed to link tentacles with Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corp., itself no small fish when it comes to diversification...