Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong Lehigh team placed four wrestlers in the finals to eke out a 53-57 victory over Pittsburgh for the team title; defending champion Syracuse came on strongly on the final day but fell just short with 55. Cornell, with 37, was the top Ivy League school...
Religious barriers hardly exist any more in church publishing. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford writes for the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal, and Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan is a regular columnist for Denver's Catholic diocesan weekly, the Register. Last week Pittsburgh's Catholic Duquesne University Press published a new Journal of Ecumenical Studies; the editors include Brown, Catholic Theologians Hans Kung and Gregory Baum, Lutheran George Lindbeck...
Relaxing Tension. Trickling down to congregational level, ecumenism has notably relaxed sociological tension, created a national fad for visits to other people's churches. In Pittsburgh, estimates the Rev. Donald Prytherch of Bethel United Presbyterian Church, at least one-third of all Protestant sermons now make reference to Christian unity. "This simply couldn't have happened five years ago," he says. Kansas City's Country Club Christian Church has invited pastors from 31 different denominations to speak from its pulpit...
...even churchmen who do not want, or foresee, the ultimate creation of one great Christian church believe that the ecumenical tide cannot be stemmed, nor should it be. "What it really amounts to," says one Catholic priest in Pittsburgh, "is a diminution of suspicion and an acceleration of good will. We simply aren't fighting each other any more...
Price Kills. Whether East or West, whether for an apartment building or for a highway, land rises in cost almost every month. The only exceptions are a few pockets, such as Denver and Pittsburgh, where present and future housing needs are saturated. An acre of ground in California, a half-hour away from Disneyland, that sold for $2,200 less than three years ago now brings as much as $13,500. Within a year, lot costs in southwest Houston have jumped $1,200 to $5,500. And on Long Island, the price of land has gone from...