Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Battlefield battalions forming across the U.S.," she says. "Schoolchildren and veterans are writing and sending money." A former Marine officer, Snyder, 66, is a veteran of Manassas campaigns. In 1973 she fought to stop an amusement park planned for the same spot. For that victory, this Yankee from Pittsburgh was awarded the Jefferson Davis medal by the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
...reasons why they were placed together, and why it was likely that they would get on well. Elby, a chemistry and physics concentrator from Westfield, NJ., shares a keen interest in science and mathematics with Martin, a physics and music concentrator from Washington, DC. Stone, a government concentrator from Pittsburgh, PA., shares an interest in politics with Salovaara, a literature concentrator who joined his roommate in his work on the Harvard Political Review...
...humans in 1978. The results were dramatic. Both rejection and infection continued to be problems, but survival rates one year after transplantation rose from 32% to 70% for liver patients and from 54% to 77% for kidney patients. "By early 1980," recalls Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading transplant surgeon, "we had a sense that there was a tremendous change in outlook in both kidneys and livers, and that enthusiasm quickly spread to the heart." Cyclosporine is highly toxic, however, and researchers have begun to look for alternatives. Ideally, they foresee a therapy that would prevent rejection...
...Munich and other West German cities. Though the plane was sold twice again during that period to other lessors, Pan Am continued to rent it. From 1986 until last September, the 737 made New York's Kennedy airport its home, flying daily routes to such cities as Cleveland and Pittsburgh...
...Winogrand's headlong pictures. For the final section of this 190- print summation of Winogrand's career, Szarkowski even had developed more than 2,500 rolls of film that the Bronx-born photographer left behind at his death. After closing on Aug. 16, the show will travel to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Austin and Tucson, spreading Szarkowski's view that Winogrand is the "central photographer of his generation...