Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eugene McCarthy also complained that Johnson was too slow in agreeing to a site for peace negotiations. In Pittsburgh, he suggested that Secretary of State Dean Rusk be dismissed as a "symbolic" gesture, and in Philadelphia, though he later hedged the idea, he proposed that the U.S. pay ransom to North Korea for the return of the U.S.S. Pueblo's crew...
Once the maelstrom began to swirl along the streets, the burgeoning sense of black identity took hold of staid citizens, who once would have shown up merely for the spectacle. In Pittsburgh, Moses Carper, 35, the scholarly, bearded editor of a Negro neighborhood paper, declared: "When the first window shattered it was like a bell ringing. I was running in the streets, running from cops, running from my own fears. I had to know this involvement, and when it came, it was like a release...
...there were no changes. The old Philadelphia Athletics who became the Kansas City Athletics are now the Oakland Athletics and they still don't look very impressive. A fellow named Larry Shepard, pitching coach last year of the Philadelphia Phillies, is managing the Pittsburgh Pirates in place of Danny Murtaugh, and 30-odd other coaches have switched jobs. Yankee Manager Ralph Houk was crowing about the new faces on his ball club-six all told, with three in the starting line-up-and his new go-go offense...
Many businessmen find that their losses are all the worse because their insurance was canceled after last summer's riots. Others canceled policies on their own because rates were raised be yond what they could afford. Morris Gordon, whose family owned a shoe store in Pittsburgh's Hill District since 1885, says that after his coverage was cut by one-third this year, he shopped around and got another policy-at almost double the $1,285.20 premium he had been paying. And he considers himself one of the fortunate few. His shop was wiped...
...earlier, turning the Little Conemaugh River into a spillway. Flooded streets were commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some local wag was sure to say: 'Well, this is the day the old dam is going to break." And break it finally did, unleashing a wall of water...