Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Superintendent Calvin Gross came in to New York City's pressure-racked school system two years ago with a reputation as the nation's most technically proficient school administrator. His record in achieving racial integration and academic innovation in Pittsburgh had been brilliant. But Pittsburgh, with its 75,000 students and its tight, cooperative civic-power structure, is not New York, with its 1,060,000 students and its vast, indifferent establishment. Last week the mild-mannered Gross got a rude shove...
...John McDonald, 62, president since 1952 of the million-member United Steelworkers of America. Challenging was Steel-worker Secretary Treasurer I. W. (for lorwith Wilbur) Abel, 56, who for the past dozen years has worked only a few paces down the hall from McDonald in the union's Pittsburgh headquarters, sharing confidences, negotiating chores and administrative responsibilities...
...turns out to be Carroll Baker, who dolls up many a flashback as Maharis treks across country jogging the memories of Viveca Lindfors, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Sothern and others. He learns that Sylvia was raped in Pittsburgh in her teens, drifted into prostitution in Mexico, developed a taste for book learning, and graduated to $100-a-night status as a Manhattan call girl employed by a transvestite panderer named Lola. Then a sadistic lover's $10,000 payoff permitted her "to acquire travel, Europe and culture." Finally face to face with his quarry, Maharis discovers that loose...
Landlord to 9,000. All three big aluminum producers are deep in real estate. Having invested $41 million in ten projects in six cities, Aluminum Co. of America is not only landlord to 9,000 Manhattan families, but also owns additional housing in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kaiser Industries and Kai ser Aluminum are part owners of a $20 million, 135-sq.-mi. site for a new city near San Diego. Reynolds Metals has completed 1,588 units of renewal housing in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Richmond and Washington, D.C., has $397 million worth under...
...shrewd field tactics and shin-splitting blocks led the Fighting Irish to 27 victories in 30 games from 1922 to 1924, and won for him a place on Walter Camp's 1924 All-America team-the only one of the four to make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left in 1950 to become a U.S. Steel industrial relations executive and one of the country's best-known banquet speakers, reliving the rides of the Four...