Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend among Protestants is a denomination-crossing liturgical renewal that has restored much ceremony to Sunday services, and is elevating the sacrament toward equality with the preaching word. But to many churchgoers, the idea of candles, vestments and more frequent Communions still smacks of Romanism, and last week in Pittsburgh the nation's largest Lutheran church resolutely voted in favor of the low road in liturgy...
...meeting in Philadelphia. About 200 of the faithful showed up to elect new officers and discuss the continuing relevance of the Swedish sage. "His really great mind relates faith to the world of science," said Dr. Dorothea Harvey, associate professor of religion at Lawrence College. Says Adolph Liebert of Pittsburgh, a research and development engineer: "He has given me a perspective on what life is for and how to use it. He gives me the courage and zest to look...
...Pittsburgh is a city with a head of steam, a heart of steel and one subject on its tongue. The steel chieftains ponder it in their exclusive Duquesne Club; the middle managers anxiously debate it in the Bar D'Or at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel; the mill hands chew it along with pretzels and pistachios in beery saloons from Ambridge to Donora. The subject: the change that is coming over the United States Steel Corp. Behind the closed doors of its executive suites, the world's largest steelmaker is shaking through the greatest reorganization in modern U.S. business...
...released or sent to early retirement. Another 2,500 executives, who have what one U.S. Steel official calls "good records and good attitudes," have been rooted up from such outposts as Birmingham, Cleveland and Provo, Utah, leaving behind a surfeit of $35,000 to $50,000 homes. Transferred to Pittsburgh, they now overflow the 41-story headquarters into four other downtown buildings. They have been brought together as part of the corporation's effort to slice through its layer cake of supervisors, consolidate its sprawling divisions and end the costly overlapping of its sales offices. The company has united...
...money. Leslie Worthington, 61, an ebullient salesman who was lifted several ranks to the presidency in 1959, runs day-to-day operations. Steelmen and securities analysts consider Blough and Tyson to be adequate specialists, rate Worthington as the most imaginative and popular of the three. "In sum," says one Pittsburgh steel executive, "the top managers are conservative men who tend to practice what they already know...