Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because it is hard to keep a good rebel down, Byrom became President of Koppers at 42. In the 18 years since, sales of the Pittsburgh conglomerate (chemicals, metals and forest products) have almost quintupled to well over $ 1 billion, and Byrom, by cheerfully delegating authority, can now spend half of his 16-hour days spreading his eclectic messages to bureaucrats, business people, reverend clergy and irreverent students. He draws his ideas from many intellectuals- a catholic collection that includes Social Activist Saul Alinsky, Semanticist Senator S.I. Hayakawa, Anthropologist Margaret Mead. Byrom always argues that people have to break down...
...Philadelphia Phillies, after being swept by the Pittsburgh Pirates in a Friday night doubleheader, clinched the National League East crown Saturday with a 10-8 victory over the surging Bucs...
Greg Luzinski hit his 35th homerun for the Phils, and starting pitcher Randy Lerch hit two four-baggers. Reliever Ron Reed closed the door on a four-run Pittsburgh rally in the ninth when he struck out hot-hitting Willie Stargell on three pitches to end the game...
Noisiest of the opponents, predictably, was Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who declared that "Camp David is a dirty deal and Carter will pay for it." While making a campaign stop in Pittsburgh later in the week, Carter compared the P.L.O. to the Ku Klux Klan, the Communist Party and the Nazis. Added the President: "It would be nice for us if they would just go away." From Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev came a searing denunciation of the summit talks, which he said made the Middle East "more explosive than ever...
...balk by relief pitcher Warren Brusstar forced in the winning run in the ninth inning and gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Friday night and a doubleheader sweep in their last-ditch fight for survival in the National League East...