Word: pittsburgh
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Church brings a variety of experiences to the job. A New Yorker who graduated from Manhattan College in 1952 with a B.A. in English, he took on as his first journalistic beat food and textile production. Later, in Pittsburgh, he covered the steel industry...
...year has not erased all of the hatred that flared into gunfire on the campus of Ohio's Kent State University, or assuaged the anguish of the victims' families. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Pittsburgh's Arthur Krause cited a poem as best conveying the "essence and spirit" of his daughter Allison, one of the four students slain by Ohio National Guardsmen. Excerpts from the poem, written by Krause's friend, Manhattan Insurance Broker Peter Davies...
...such property is owned by-and often produces profit for-governmental, religious, educational or charitable organizations. Measured by its dollar value, half or more of the real estate in Albany and Ithaca, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., is taxfree. The ratio is 33% or more in New York City, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa., and Montpelier, Vt. In a penetrating new book, The Free List (Russell Sage Foundation; $7.50), Journalist Alfred Balk argues that the exemptions have become so large, loose and inconsistent as to hurt all other property-taxpayers and the nation as a whole. Balk cites several authoritative estimates that...
With a canoe and sampling bottles, two Penn State University professors spent five months last year testing 60 miles of the Ohio and Monongahela rivers near Pittsburgh. As a result, Biologist John Zavodni and Political Scientist David Nixon (no kin to the President) documented 500 cases of industrial water pollution and filed 362 affidavits with the Justice Department...
...Justice charged four big companies with 73 violations of the 1899 Refuse Act, which forbids discharge of pollutants into navigable waters. The defendants, accused of dumping acids, cyanides and metals into the rivers, are Pennsylvania Industrial Chemical Corp. and three top steel companies: U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin and Wheeling-Pittsburgh. If convicted, the companies could be fined up to $2,500 for each violation. Under the 1899 law, moreover, Professors Nixon and Zavodni stand to get a bounty-50% of the assessed fines. If they get enough cash, they plan to organize a river-monitoring service that will use more...