Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phyllis Appleby Pittsburgh...
...York City in 1836, hoping to be a missionary even though he had no assurance that there was a job for him. German-speaking priests were in short supply in America, and Neumann was quickly ordained and dispatched as a missionary to farmers around Buffalo. He later ministered in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and many other towns...
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...nudes or anything," says Cindy Brennan, 18, who worked on the Hennessey bright barn of portraits. With the farmer won over, the whole community would pitch in with the spirit of a pioneer barn raising. Local merchants contributed paintbrushes, rollers, tarps and scaffolding. Adult volunteers provided transportation and meals. Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Sears, Roebuck supplied the paint. As many as 15 to 25 teen-agers helped plot the design, scaled it up on the barn wall and daubed in the pigments. It was "like painting in a giant coloring book," says Kelly Zeiman...
...prejudice of white fans against a black man calling signals and directing the team does not help. Joe Gilliam was one of the first black N.F.L. quarterbacks, starting six preseason and another half-dozen regular-season games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974. His record up to that point was 10-1-1, but his life was hell in a very small place. Lynn Swann recalls: "He would get anonymous phone calls. They said they could rip him off any time they wanted to, there were two guns pointed at him, that if he started the ball game...