Word: pittsburgh
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...LAST DAY IN BASEBALL, after his glory had faded and the princely New York Yankees had fobbed him off on the lowly Boston Braves, Babe Ruth pulled himself together and hit three home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Arthur Hiller and John Fusco must have been tempted to turn that into a wildly exultant moment, like the conclusion of The Natural -- music soaring, fireworks exploding, the crowd in hysterics. But no, it's just an away game on a flatly lighted September afternoon at the end of a nowhere season. The people who made The Babe seem to understand...
...WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST? When the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912, more than 80% of those who drowned were men. Many had relinquished lifeboat seats to members of the gentler sex. Eight decades later, the dictates of Edwardian civility no longer hold much water. In a survey the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette learned that only 35% of the men on a Titanic II today would cede their lifeboat spots to children or women who weren't their wives. A mere 54% would give up seats for their mothers and 67% for their spouses...
...declaim what it means. Although the subject is nothing less than the whole range of political, social and philosophical options by which black people have lived for the past couple of decades, the story remains, to all appearances, a glimpse of everyday existence circa 1969 in a run-down Pittsburgh luncheonette...
McKee's mother says she is sure her son's sudden decision to fly home was not known to his superiors in Virginia. "This was the first time Chuck ever telephoned me from Beirut," she says. "I was flabbergasted. 'Meet me at the Pittsburgh airport tomorrow night,' he said. 'It's a surprise.' Always before he would wait until he was back in Virginia to call and say he was coming home...
However, a Boston Herald description of the crowd attending a 1903 game pitting Boston against Pittsburgh conveys a classless ballpark environment: "The vast throng that looked on as the American champions were forced down to defact was cosmopolitan in the broadest sense of the word. Side by side sat professional men and grocery clerks, ministers and sports, college professors and graduates of he sand lots, all bound together by one great, all-absorbing love for the national game...