Word: pittsburgh
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Blyleven, acknowledged as having the best curveball in the league, was the winner of this one, allowing seven hits, walking one and striking out six in his first postseason outing since 1979 when he won one game each in the playoffs and World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Detroit 020 000 010--3 Minnesota...
Freshman squash recruits include George Polsky of New York; Bobby Greenhill of Greenwich, Conn; John Masland of Philadelphia; Andy Goodstein of New York; Mike Foster and Raj Mahidara of Pittsburgh, Penn.; and Ernie Lee of San Francisco...
Even as a child, Bork delighted in running counter to the grain. He became a popular but bookish teenager who mystified his friends in the solidly Republican town of Ben Avon, a Pittsburgh suburb, by declaring himself a socialist. His father, a purchasing agent for a steel company, and his mother, a teacher, both thought the flirtation with socialism was crazy. "I read The Coming Struggle for Power, a Marxist analysis of capitalism by John Strachey," he recalled later. "It was powerful stuff and I thought it was probably true...
...fingerprints would eventually provoke a controversy. No matter how "voluntary" the program, the notion of methodically asking people who were not individually suspect to submit to an intrusive procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared an "open season on black people...
...While idlers in the doorway of the Ragtime Saloon gawked at network television crews outside police headquarters, the chief pressed on with his campaign. On Wednesday his men rushed to request fingerprints from a "suspicious" black man reported downtown; they found that he was merely an innocent man from Pittsburgh who was standing around waiting for his brother. Otherwise, Kelly's teams kept up ! their door-to-door canvass, collecting prints and handing out alarm horns to women in the blue-collar neighborhood where the rapes had been concentrated...