Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mass organizing methods, Alinsky set up a training school for organizers, the Industrial Areas Foundation. With pickets, boycotts and stockholder revolts, he worked in behalf of impoverished Irish Americans in Chicago, unemployed blacks in Rochester, Chicanos in California and even tax-burdened middle-class whites in Pittsburgh. The emotional and Utopian character of recent radicals offended Alinsky's sense of pragmatism. He had no patience with either revolutionary black separatists or white hippie dropouts because both "dogmatically refuse to begin with the world as it is," scoffed at pure theorists because "a movement without organization is nothing more than...
...humor of George S. Kaufman was very much in that laconic, debunking vein. In fact, Kaufman, a lanky ribbon salesman from Pittsburgh who became the most successful Broadway playwright of his time, attended costume balls as the 16th President. In later years, possibly touchy about being mistaken for Raymond Massey, he remarked that the actor would not be satisfied until he was assassinated...
...school board of Boston, like those of New York City, Washington and Chicago, had earlier forbidden it. Pittsburgh, too, is phasing it out, but only after a particularly fierce battle. Paddling a student, said Albert Fondy, president of the Pittsburgh Teachers Federation, is "a quick way to show disapproval, like the city giving me a parking ticket when I park illegally...
...avert a showdown. Companies in danger of bumping against their profit-margin ceilings could pour more money into such activities as advertising and research and development, thereby reducing immediate profits but also perhaps increasing their share of the market. Willard F. Rockwell Jr., chairman of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh-based maker of valves, meters and power tools, views the necessity of complying with margin ceilings as a chance to "give my competitors a good kick in the pants...
...clearly the standout team of the young season. Before losing to the Chicago Cubs last week, the Mets won eleven games straight to equal their club record (set in 1969, the year they won the World Series) and to open a lead of six games over the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League's East Division...