Word: pittsburgh
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...Incumbent Richard Schweiker, 48, who is one of few Republican Senators given a perfect voting record by the AFL-CIO, has the support of organized labor and the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, the state's anti-gun-control lobby. Democrat Pete Flaherty, 49,mayor of Pittsburgh is a trustbusting populist who opposes busing, abortion and amnesty. While schweiker appeals to many urban Demacrats. Flaherty has a following among suburban Republicans. With issues in such confusion , Flaherty has tried to tar Swhweiker with Watergate even though Nixon and demanded the president's Resignation last May.Schweiker Leads...
When he is not embroiled in campaigning, Pittsburgh's Democratic mayor, Pete Flaherty, makes a habit of coming home for dinner every night so that he can chat with his five children. Once he is finished, he usually goes off to an officially scheduled dinner. "He gets there after everybody has eaten," says his wife Nancy. "But they don't seem to mind." And meanwhile, she adds, "Pete has told me and the children what is going on." Junie Butler, wife of a Virginia Congressman, states this creed for the wife determined to avoid being submerged...
...Chicago, farm leaders argued against any move to reduce food prices in the U.S. by means of stiffening export regulations so that more farm goods would be kept at home. Business leaders at two minisummits in Pittsburgh and Detroit insisted on their right to raise prices and asked for greater depreciation allowances to increase production. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II proposed at least a five-year moratorium on most Government orders to install new safe ty and antipollution equipment in cars...
Brodeur relates how officials of the Pittsburgh Corning Corp. were finally pressured by a few concerned Government inspectors and union leaders to do something about the excessive amount of fiber detected in air samples taken as early as 1967 at their dusty asbestos plant in Tyler, Texas. But not before the damning results of the tests were filed away for four years by complacent higher Government officials. The plant was eventually closed rather than meet higher health standards. The workers were never warned that the fiber concentration far exceeded the unsafe standards then in effect or even that asbestos...
Brodeur quotes Pittsburgh Coming's health director, Dr. Lee B. Grant, as telling one federal investigator that there was no danger at the Tyler plant, for an appalling reason: "That place is so dusty none of the men work there long enough to get sick." Covering some of the same ground, Scott reports that Dr. R.T.R. DeTreville, president of the Industrial Health Foundation, visited a pipe-manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh, where two workers had been hospitalized after being exposed to epoxy resins. Asked by a British doctor working with him why the plant was not closed until the extent...