Word: pittsburgh
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...quietly signed up 139 elected Democratic officials, including Governor James Blanchard and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. In Pennsylvania, which has a potentially important April primary, Mondale can count on so much help from the regular Democratic organization that he has not bothered to put together one of his own. Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri is grateful for federal cash that Mondale steered to the city when he was Jimmy Carter's Vice President, and Mondale has raised $50,000 for Wilson Goode, who is likely to be elected mayor of Philadelphia next month. Unlike some other black leaders...
...industry's biggest companies have decided that the only way to survive the slide is to get together and streamline their operations. Through a swap of stocks valued at $770 million, Republic Steel of Cleveland, the fourth largest U.S. producer, intends to merge with Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin, which ranks third in the industry and is a subsidiary of LTV Corp., a Dallas-based corporation that also manufactures aircraft parts and rockets for the military. Together, Republic and Jones & Laughlin control 15.9% of the steel market, and the combined company, to be called LTV Steel, will stand second...
...fact, Vignali hasn't missed a practice since ninth grade. His memories of football go back as far as first grade. When he was six he played catch with his father Larry, who was an All-American at Pitt, drafted out of college in the fifth round by the Pittsburgh Steelers...
Declared Eleanor Smeal of Pittsburgh, housewife and president of the 65,000-member National Organization for Women: "Houston was a rite of passage." Ruth Clusen of Green Bay, Wis president of the League of Women Voters, struck the same theme: "Even for women who are outside organizational life, who don't see themselves as part of the women's movement, something has happened in their lives as a result of this meeting whether they realize...
...Rickham auditorium was elaborate. Under the klieg lights set up for TV and newsreel cameras, surrounded by microphones and 150 reporters, sat the unquestioned hero of the occasion: Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, 40, the determined, youthful-looking virologist who for five years had battled in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory to lick polio. Next to him sat the University of Michigan's Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., 54, one of the U.S.'s most eminent epidemiologists, who had been chosen by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to evaluate last year's nationwide tests of the Salk vaccine...