Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donovan succeeds Calvin Gross, who two years ago was lured to New York from Pittsburgh after earning a reputation for creative educational innovation there. But in New York, Gross never learned the knobs and levers of the system, and thus proved unable to formulate or push ideas fast enough to satisfy the board. Now on three-month terminal leave, he still turns up daily at his office to mull over personal matters and help his lawyers fight for a hefty severance settlement...
...slack pace is deceiving. From an original field of eight candidates for the job, the committee has selected four for more intensive interviewing, including a two-day visit to Cambridge for each. Only one of of the final candidates is a local man; the others come from St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and New York...
Pilots struck Pan American World Airways, grounding planes all over its worldwide system, and clerks went on strike against two big Manhattan department stores. Strikes were called against a construction firm at Cape Kennedy, towboat owners in Pittsburgh, and three machine-tool plants in Detroit. New York was threatened by another newspaper strike, and the Transport Workers Union threatened to strike the Philadelphia subway system if it continued to use dogs to patrol the subways instead of hiring more guards...
Unions are making stiff demands in the rubber, aerospace, aluminum, shipping and textile industries, all of which must renew labor contracts in coming months. And in Pittsburgh, steel negotiators angrily rejected a United Steelworkers proposal that would cost the industry an extra $1 an hour per man-thus further raising fears of a strike that could damage the unprecedented 50-month advance of the economy...
...complex-which he bought from Howard Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about 20% of General's 1964 profits of $37 million. Today RKO General owns seven radio and five TV stations, a community antenna television company, 123 movie theaters, Pittsburgh Outdoor Advertising, and the 400-room Equinox House in Manchester...