Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
...TIME cover, Oct. 18). "He's a scrambler, a rollout quarterback," said one. "He doesn't play the pro game." But 1,738 yds. and 15 TDs later, Roger is the No. 1 choice of 17 out of 22 pro teams. Says Coach Buddy Parker of the Pittsburgh Steelers: "For his position, the best college player I've ever seen." The "book" on Roger: "Very accurate, shifty, strong, great peripheral vision, unmatched at hitting secondary receivers. A perfect pro quarterback." There is one catch: Staubach may never play pro ball. He has another year...
...dash man, plows into tacklers "with reckless abandon and no regard for his personal safety." Ohio State's Warfield will have to put on pounds, but he is "the complete pro prospect-with the instinctive savvy to do the right things and be in the right places." Pittsburgh's Paul Martha, 21 (6 ft. 1 in., 184 lbs.), is almost certain to be drafted in the first round as a flanker or a defensive halfback...
Abortive Revolution. The dilemma seemed resolved in 1960 when President Kennedy pied-piped youth to Washington. "The college student couldn't help feeling some identification with a commander in chief who had to have a special haircut to look the part," says President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College. Here was a president who called on youth to serve-and provided the Peace Corps, the Foreign Legion of this college generation...
Died. Fritz Reiner, 74, master conductor, a squat, lusty Hungarian with a precise "vest-pocket" podium style (a daring musician once brought a telescope to rehearsal to catch his minuscule beat), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1922, taught Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, directed the Pittsburgh and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before going to the fading Chicago Symphony in 1953, which he whipped into one of the world's finest ensembles, with a repertory that ran from Mozart to his countryman Kodaly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...