Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Douglas, Representative Claude Pepper of Florida, former Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey and the late Senator Edward Long of Missouri. At other times, however, there was friction among the agencies. FBI agents once discovered that a Manhattan-based CIA man was in close touch with a Pittsburgh Mafia chief who was being probed by the FBI. The FBI protested so vehemently that the CIA operative was sent to Italy until FBI tempers cooled...
...healthiest sales cities was Pittsburgh, where Christmas week retail business was a solid 33% greater than the year before. The prime reason is that steel-industry demand and employment remains strong, and steelworkers have been protected against the erosion in buying power that afflicted most other wage earners in 1974 by the cost of living escalators they won in their union contracts early last year. Says Lawrence Finley, a local Gimbel's executive: "Psychologically, the attitude here is bullish. Even the Steelers are winning...
...Rooney is a patient man. In the 42 years since he founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, Rooney has enjoyed only eleven seasons in which his team won more games than it lost. The Steelers have not earned a single N.F.L. championship. No other pro football team that has been around so long has produced so little. But for Rooney, now 73, success seems finally to have arrived. The Steelers are the new champions of the American Conference, and they are heading into Sunday's Super Bowl with an excellent chance to beat the Minnesota Vikings...
...Pittsburgh's rendezvous with Minnesota was not exactly a surprise. The Steelers were undefeated in preseason play and, despite the fact that they took most of the fall to decide on their first-string quarterback, they entered the play-offs with a 10-3-1 record. Then, in the process of defeating Buffalo and Oakland to qualify for the Super Bowl, the Steelers really got their offense humming. Running Back Franco Harris remembered how to rumble through tacklers like a tank. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw recalled that he is, after all, No. 1 in Pittsburgh. During recent games, says Coach...
...best defense in football. The Steelers' front four, the most ferocious in the league, flattened quarterbacks 52 times this season with their savage pass rush. The team's linebackers, led by bruising Jack Ham, are almost as intimidating. Against the powerful Raiders in the A.F.C. championship game, Pittsburgh yielded only 29 yds. in 21 running plays...