Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania in his tight struggle with his Democratic opponent Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty. A liberal who was on the White House "enemies" list, Schweiker has been handicapped by the G.O.P. Administration in Washington. But despite President Ford's conservatism, relations between the new Administration and Schweiker are friendly and cooperative; a new campaign vigor and a spirit of optimism in the Schweiker camp have been immediate results...
...people of Beaver Falls, Pa. (pop. 14,000), a steel-fabricating town north of Pittsburgh, slowly retreated from their support of Richard Nixon with each Watergate shock (TIME, Nov. 12). Now they are glad that the long ordeal is over, but they bear him no ill will...
Babe Ruth's record-buster Hank Aaron stepped up to the plate at the All-Star game in Pittsburgh last week looking like thunder. The Atlanta Braves had fired Manager Ed Mathews, then announced that Hank would not get the job. "They should have asked me," said Hank. Then he underlined the fact that baseball has yet to have a black manager. "I'd probably say yes. Maybe that's what they are afraid of." The team also ruled out his brother Tommie, 34, manager of Atlanta's AA team in Savannah, now in a tight...
...N.F.L. owners, of course, fail to see the analogy. Instead, they envision chaos in an open market. "If we do what the players want," says Pittsburgh Steeler Owner Dan Rooney, "500 to 800 guys would change teams every year. What happens to fan loyalty?" Others worry about competitive balance. "The rich teams would dominate," says Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. "You can't run a competitive league that...
...Bete who graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe and won a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. A feminist, she got a chapter on women's economic status into the 1972 Economic Report. An authority on international trade, she returned to teaching in 1973 at the University of Pittsburgh...