Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dodger ace Don Sutton stopped Pittsburgh on four hits on Saturday as Los Angeles won, 3-0. The Pirates bowed to the Western Division champs again on Sunday, 5-2. The series resumes on Tuesday in Los Angeles...
...Dodgers are favored to take the elder ieague's title over the Pittsburgh Pirates who clinched the Eastern championship on Wednesday over the St. Louis Cardinals by a one-game margin. While the Pirates-Cards race was a close one, both teams would have finished no better than tied for third and fourth, respectively, in the Western division...
Thus, barely a month into his presidency, Gerald Ford found himself jeered by a crowd of pardon protesters outside a hotel in Pittsburgh, where he addressed a conference on urban transportation. They waved signs bearing such taunts as THE COUNTRY WON'T STAND FOR IT?a mockery of Ford's declaration about a pardon for Nixon, which Ford made during the Senate hearings to confirm him as Vice President. In an otherwise pleasant outing to help dedicate a World Golf Hall of Fame in Pinehurst, N.C., Ford faced more banners: IS NIXON ABOVE THE LAW? and JAIL CROOKS, NOT RESISTERS...
...summer waned, though, Pittsburgh Pirate Slugger Willie Stargell announced that "the race doesn't start until September 1." A week before Stargell's target date, the rapidly improving Pirates took over first place. Leading the charge has been Richie Zisk, not exactly a household name among ball fans. Until this year the Brooklyn-born rightfielder was best known as a dreamer. "He'd stand out in the field and think about a movie he'd seen," recalls Pirate Manager Danny Murtaugh. Going into last weekend, the former woolgathering champ was hitting .325, second best...
...California State College, 65 miles south of Pittsburgh, the sociology professor was one of the most valued and popular members of the faculty, despite his missing an occasional morning class. At Bronx Community College in New York City, students were particularly fond of their social-science teacher, although he was sometimes late for his classes. At the State University of New York at New Paltz, some 70 miles north of The Bronx, a new sociology professor earned the reputation of being a diligent and effective, if sometimes tardy, teacher. Last week, when the New Paltz sociology professor resigned from...