Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side, many voters preferred Ford's more stolid style to Carter's sometimes almost smart-alecky behavior. Said David Porter, 31, an unemployed Pittsburgh schoolteacher: "Foreign policy is not a smiling issue." Said Chicago Management Consultant Randy Adams, 32: "I think Ford answered more directly. I don't agree with everything he said, but he answered the questions...
Heinz was a multimillionaire at birth, thanks to the food-processing empire built by his antecedents-he calls it "that little pickleworks down in Pittsburgh." He has diplomas, manners and diction from Exeter, Yale and Harvard Business School. He does wondrous things on ski slopes, plays hand tennis and jogs two miles almost daily. On learning that a new campaign adviser had once been a competitive swimmer, Competitor Heinz's first reaction was a challenge: "I bet I could beat you if we went just one lap." Heinz is also a picky employer who has problems with his staff...
Munching pungent Polish sausage (heavy on the onion sauce) at a county fair, he can talk knowingly about the fine points of a champion steer because he has done some gentleman farming. In the predominantly Democratic Pittsburgh district that has elected him three times, Heinz, an Episcopalian, gets on well with blue-collar ethnic families. He de-emphasizes the G.O.P. label and tries to come across as an independent who cares enough about working-class problems to vote occasionally against Republican Administration positions. Two weeks ago, for instance, he voted to override President Ford's veto...
They are removing the scaffolding at last from the locker room inside hulking, gray Schaefer Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. After dazzling consecutive wins over three of the National Football League's finest teams-Miami, Pittsburgh and Oakland-the once and always rebuilding New England Patriots are no longer under construction. With a conference-leading offense built around the passing and surprise running of Star Quarterback Steve Grogan (see box) and an adequate, if not preternatural defense, the newly proud Pats have shucked their longtime label-Patsies...
...Yankees acquired some good runners from the minors, too. Mickey Rivers, from the farm club called the California Angels, stole more than 43 bases and Willie Randolph from the farm club in Pittsburgh, stole 35 bases. One pure-bred Yankee, Roy White, snagged about 29 bases...