Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Superbowl ballyhoo in America couldn't camouflage sportswriters Hal Beck and Ben Olan's tired attempt to capture Pittsburgh Steeler star Joe Greene in Football Stars...
...Greene what it's like to be a defensive tackle and his eyes light up. The sparkle tells you immediately that "Mean" Joe Greene enjoys his job. Thoroughly. "The tackles are coming on," says the huge Pittsburgh lineman who is called Mean, mostly because of his style, but also because it happens to rhyme with Greene...
...holidays were filled with footballs. The pro play-offs opened with victories for Minnesota, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; in Oakland the Raiders scored the biggest win of all with a wacky 28-26 squeaker over the defending Super Bowl champion Dolphins. And when the pros were taking a breather, the college bowl games competed for the fan's attention. Almost unnoticed amidst all the hoopla, Federal District Court Judge William T. Sweigert handed down a decision in San Francisco that threw the National Football "League for a loss. It could upset the basic structure of labor-management relations...
Invitation to Explain. The move created pressures for similar reductions on the part of Bethlehem Steel, the U.S.'s second biggest producer, and smaller Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., both of which had followed U.S. Steel's original announcement with price hikes of their own averaging 2½ to 5%. At the council's invitation, Bethlehem officials arrived in Washington at week's end to explain their increase...
Right Vibes. Born in Pittsburgh, Bennett jockeyed his first disc at the age of 16 and has worked for 35 stations in his 16 years in the business. "I've never had a family," he says. "My home is where the radio towers are." Bennett's success is not entirely the result of his wily stunts, of course. He haunts record stores and pop concerts, and studiously keeps one hip ahead of ever-changing adolescent argot. He is also, as one client station's program manager notes, a "maniac" about listening to his listeners. At Bennett...