Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More broadly, the nation's regional press has applauded Carter's tone-setting use of symbols in his first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years...
...cauldron of bean soup at his cluttered campaign headquarters in Chicago, he told visitors that only by stealing the election could union chiefs deprive him of the presidency: "They've done it before, and they'll do it again." At his opponent's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Campaign Press Chief Hank Raebun phoned Organization Candidate Lloyd McBride at home in St. Louis. "We're doin' good, buddy," he crowed. "We got this sumbitch beat...
...Trail Smokesters and the Pendicton V's won the world hockey championship. Dea's father played Junior hockey, and he has two cousins in the NHL. One is Billy Dea, who played from 1953-58 before going down to the minors and then resurfacing in 1967 with the expansion Pittsburgh Penguins. His other cousing is Don Murdoch, who has acquired the nickname "Killer" after leading the Rangers in scoring this year in his rookie season...
...seems a high price to pay for a demonstration of presidential leadership, but there was no disputing the fact that Carter was moving fast and forcefully. He dramatized the crisis-and the presidential role in it -by hastily convening a Cabinet meeting, then taking a quick trip to frozen Pittsburgh. He declared eleven states disaster areas because of snow or drought, thus making them eligible for some form of federal assistance...
...people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...