Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet critics praised Rosen's "splendid technique and beautiful full sound." Principal cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony under André Previn, Rosen was elated by his second-time-around victory. "Before, I was examining the style of others," he said. "This time, I was much more intense, concentrated." He began playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist...
Slowdowns. Over the past few weeks, the air-traffic controllers have been staging slowdowns at selected airports. Hardest hit: Pittsburgh, New York City's La Guardia and Kennedy, Newark, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The controllers, who are entitled to eight free "familiarization" flights yearly on domestic airlines, wanted one "fam flight" on U.S. international carriers. Northwest, Pan Am and TWA are resisting on the grounds that U.S. controllers do not direct landings abroad. Late last week, pressure from a federal court persuaded controllers to end the slowdown, at least temporarily, but the issue of free flights remains unresolved...
...could even be cranked into a central information system. That of course suggests some Strangelovian scenes such as Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top pol, in a domestic command bunker, farm boots up on the computer console, phone in hand, lights flashing across huge screens: "Get Strauss out to Pittsburgh. The steel areas are angry red ... Tell Califano to shut up on tobacco. North Carolina has dropped off the map ... Can Brown pump some defense contracts into the West Coast? Unemployment is edging up ... For God's sake, is Bergland loose again? Kansas is turning blue...
...Pittsburgh 4, New York...
...path out of past mistakes. The company's fleet of planes has been reduced from six to three, and the executive dining room has been closed. More important than these symbolic moves, this year's capital budget, originally set for $2.5 billion, is being cut drastically. At headquarters in Pittsburgh, and in branch offices from Houston to Tokyo, cutbacks in staff are reaching into the hundreds. Public affairs has been pruned severely; its chief, Senior Vice President Jayne Baker Spain, a former vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, is the highest Gulf officer...