Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge gambling casino near Havana. When Castro took power, he banished the three. The trio left behind $450,000, which they asked friends to hold for them. The money, the take from the casino's last days, belonged to Mafia clans in New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh...
Many consumers are using the money to finance purchases of essential goods and services that they could have ill afforded otherwise. Helen Wood, a saleswoman for an Atlanta office-supply firm, spent her $139 check on children's bathing suits and some clothes for herself. A Pittsburgh mother of five says that she cashed her check and used it for food and household supplies-without telling her husband. Detroit Secretary Virginia Donohue is paying for dental work with her rebate. "It's a godsend," she exclaims...
...like Vice Presidents Dorothy Gregg of Celanese Corp. and Pamela Flaherty of First National City Bank, are now holding high executive positions in major companies. Sister Jane Scully, a Roman Catholic nun and president of Carlow College in Pittsburgh, recently became the first female member of the board of directors of Gulf Oil, joining a growing number of women corporate directors...
...sports world witnessed anything so surprising as the New York Islanders' inspired dash through the Stanley Cup play-offs this year. After first knocking off the Rangers, their haughty New York cousins, and then churning back from a three-games-to-none deficit against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the young, spirited Islanders very nearly upset the league's defending champions, the Flyers...
...suited him for running a food company. During 20 years with Ford Motor Co., he played a major role in setting up the company's financial control system, became a director and eventually headed Ford's Australian subsidiary. In 1968 Booth joined the Rockwell International Corp., a Pittsburgh-based company that manufactures such durable goods as missiles and other space vehicles, gears, filters and textile machinery...