Word: pittsburgh
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...yellow buildup of calluses on his palms, and muses: "When a player reaches 35 or 36 and says, 'Hey, I better start taking care of myself,' it's too late." Besides Yaz, Rose and Perez, the only other over-40s enjoying extra innings are Pittsburgh's Pop, Willie Stargell, 41, and Pitchers Jim Kaat, 43, of St. Louis, Woodie Fryman, 42, of Montreal, Phil Niekro, 43, of Atlanta, and Gaylord Perry, 43, of Seattle. In the offseason, tennis fortifies Rose. Yaz, because of his chronically creaky back, is unable to run for exercise, so he pedals...
...important literary and political journal of the interwar period, and married a fellow staff member, the independent-minded Sophia Wittenberg of Brooklyn. (Sixty years later, he still offers sonnets to her.) Mumford took up the study of cities in earnest after a stint at a municipal job in Pittsburgh. A 1929 book on Herman Melville established him as a literary critic, and his 1938 The Culture of Cities made him a national celebrity...
Gulf's offer was part of its long-term corporate strategy. The Pittsburgh company has declining domestic energy reserves, and it has been eyeing other firms with large fuel supplies. Last January, Chairman James E. Lee told a group of security analysts: "I recognize that in the near term our best shot at reversing our reserves decline may be to buy reserves." Cities Service will provide plenty. The Tulsa-based firm has land believed to hold at least 307 million bbl. of crude and more than 3 trillion...
...other bones, uncovered about half a mile away from White's find, consist of seven skull fragments, all lying within 18 in. of one another. The discoverer was another expedition member, Leonard Krishtalka of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. Remarkably, three of the fossils, including a frontal bone, which is especially useful in assessing the possible shape of the skull, easily fit together. The age of the bones was determined from radioactive dating of a layer of cindery volcanic debris near the fossils. The bones, declared Clark, are the oldest clearly identifiable hominid, or humanlike, skull fragments ever found...
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