Word: pittsburgh
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...TERRIFYING MINUTES LAST month, 35 pilots were forced to navigate the airspace around Pittsburgh International Airport on a wing and a prayer. As two planes readied to take off from parallel runways and 33 planes cruised the surrounding air corridors, one of the airport's power systems shorted out. That tiny malfunction shut down all radarscopes, telephone lines, landing-instrument systems, radio connections and lights inside the air-control tower. "You have to visualize a radarscope showing two planes aimed at each other from 50 miles away," says Barry Krasner, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "Your equipment...
Needlessly alarmist? As it happened, no planes came hurtling down, none collided in midair, no one was hurt. So Pittsburgh's mishap barely stirred notice. But such technological glitches are fast becoming routine in the nation's air-traffic-control system. By the National Transportation Safety Board's reckoning, anti- quated tracking equipment freezes up, shuts down or fizzles out all too often. "There is not one day that goes by without our losing radar or radio communication with an aircraft," says Joseph Fruscella, president of NATCA's eastern region. "It compromises safety on a regular basis...
Maybe a little of both. But sooner rather than later, "his irresistible Irish-American charm" and his "overwhelming, unstoppable energy" (Donen's phrases) blew away your reservations. For there was always something disarming in the forthright way that Kelly, who was born in Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part...
TODAYTOMORROW Pittsburgh at Detroit, 3 p.m. Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 3 p.m. Vancouver at Winnipeg, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Colorado, 3 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Chicago at San Jose, 3 p.m. Chicago at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Boston, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Wash., 7:30 p.m. Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. L. Angeles at Calgary...
Steeler owner Dan Rooney, on the other hand, is so low-profile that he didn't include a biography of himself in the Pittsburgh media guide. Then there's Steeler coach Bill Cowher, who has the full respect and backing of both his players and his community. And the Steelers themselves are a no-nonsense, humble bunch, complete with their own Deion Sanders: Kordell ("Slash") Stewart, their quarterback/wide receiver/halfback. If Super Bowl XXX were a morality play, the Steelers would be two-touchdown favorites...