Word: pittsburgh
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...representing Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and II, Penn, agreed, and thus was born the Public Broad casting Service's "Ivy Game of the Week." The first season saw the games air over twelve stations, including PBS powerhouses like Boston's WGBH, New York's, WNFE, and Pittsburgh's WOFD...
Overweight and out of shape, he enters the Pittsburgh Pirates training camp and suits up. Facing a pitching machine, he writes, "I take a practice swing. It's as if I dropped my pants in an old burlesque house--screams of laughter, hoots, catcalls." In the field, "my body already hurts so much I do not even care. I embrace my wounds. I am St. Sebastian." He also answers to another name. A boy holds out an autograph book and later shows his grandfather the fat player's signature. The old man examines it knowledgeably: "Sure, I know...
...York Islanders 6, Pittsburgh...
...during the deadly winter assault provided some temporary relief. In Chicago, where the temperature dropped to a record -27 degrees F, police picked up those in danger of freezing and delivered them to makeshift dormitories in schools and park recreation centers. As the temperature plummeted to -18 degrees in Pittsburgh, most of the city's 1,500 street people squeezed into shelters and missions, while some slept in jail. In New York City, where the temperature dipped to -2 degrees, a record low for the date, 19,269 of the homeless (another record) jammed into city shelters. Mayor Ed Koch...
...premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor performance of Tobias Picker's frisky Keys to the City, written in 1983 to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge's centenary. And Pittsburgh got the first hearing of Ned Rorem's rawboned An American Oratorio, performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Mendelssohn Choir...