Word: pittsburgh
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There was nothing of Tweedledum, Tweedledee in the choice available to Pennsylvania voters last week for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, reported TIME Correspondent Don Sider, it was more like Robert Redford v. James Cagney. Facing each other from opposite ends of the state were Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, a lanky, blue-eyed charmer with an engaging grin and earnest air, and former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg, a cocky, abrasive professor whose "Shopper's Guides" to buying insurance, legal-aid and medical services have made him a consumers' hero. In the end, Redford...
Somewhat shy and constantly smiling ("He can outsmile me five to one," said Denenberg), Flaherty ran on his reputation as Pittsburgh's fiercely honest, cost-saving mayor. A former assistant district attorney and city councilman with a law degree from Notre Dame, Flaherty, 48, was first elected in 1969 on the slogan that he was "nobody's boy." He proved it by eliminating unnecessary jobs from city hall, attacking union featherbedding, and bringing in a cadre of new young department heads. He has also abolished or lowered several city taxes. Last fall he was re-elected on both...
King is the best WTT competitor. The cheers she led against the Pittsburgh Triangles in the opening match provoked venerable player-captain Ken Rosewall into storming over to the Freedoms' bench to lecture her against abusing his players. It waff almost as good as professional wrestling without the wooden acting. Rosewall was genuinely mad; the cool man had been razzed by a woman...
...Briggs Travelling fellowships were awarded to Elissa R. Henken '74 of North House and Pleasantville, N.Y. and Jacquelyn S. Swearingen '74 of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, Pa. Anne D. Montgomery '74 of Dunster House and Greenville, S.C. won the Ireland Travelling fellowship and Jane E. Tewksbury '74 of North House and Saugus won the Sherman fellowship...
Meanwhile, the New York Rangers traded captain Vic Hadfield to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenseman Nick Beverly...