Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend's triumphs left the club's record at 5-6 and qualified the swimmers for the Eastern Championships in Pittsburgh this weekend...
Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm, 41, had a case in point. "Norman Thomas in the 1948 campaign went down to the slums of Pittsburgh and knocked on a door. One of the lowest-paid members of our society opened the door, and Norman Thomas introduced himself. And the guy said, 'Oh, you're the son of a bitch who's trying to change our system...
JOSEPH RHODES, Pennsylvania state legislator: My father was black, from Alabama. My mother is Chinese, born in the Philippines. I went to a white elementary school in Pittsburgh where I was called a nigger. I went to a black high school where I was called a Chink. This sense of separation was right there from the beginning. I was born Catholic, but later was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness. That also gave me a sense of separation. You are not supposed to salute the flag, and in fourth grade all the kids beat...
...victory was not easy for the Pittsburgh-area congressman. Green, a Philadelphian and son of one of Pennsylvania's most powerful bosses, the late Bill Green Jr., has cultivated extensive support from the Democratic machine, which possesses a 700,000 margin in registered voters over the Republican Party...
...Vivian Reed, a sizzling, sinuous singer-actress-clown-tap dancer, alone turns Bubbling Brown Sugar into a mousse to remember. She was singing gospel at churches around her native Pittsburgh by the age of eight, and studied classical music at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute before winning a three-year Juilliard scholarship. "I had aspirations of going to the Met and being Leontyne Price," she recalls, "but I switched to popular music and blues because it gave greater freedom of expression and I liked the audience." A veteran of the resort and supper-club circuit, she has a new album. Brown...