Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July, just two days short of Willard R. Gilliland's 39th birthday, when he left his home in Peters Township, south of Pittsburgh, to take his mother-in-law, his wife June and their five children to visit his mother in Pittsburgh, 15 miles away. The family had a typical three-generation reunion. When it was over, June Gilliland left first in one car to take her mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short...
...Corp., a Harvard Business School graduate who in 1951 left the industrial consultant firm he helped found (Cresap, McCormick & Paget) to revamp the Westinghouse management structure, and in his five years as president brought the company into the forefront of nuclear development; following surgery for a gastric hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh...
...used method so far, it modifies the neighborhood-school concept enough to let students of mostly Negro schools transfer to mostly white schools that have sufficient room. Open enrollment was pioneered in New York City, is used or will be starting in some form next September in Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, San Francisco and many smaller cities. Usually only a fraction of the eligible Negro students take advantage...
...five years at Westinghouse brought the company from malaise to new health, Cresap's own health has been bad ever since a bout with hepatitis last year. Recent complications brought doctor's orders to give up work completely, and last week Cresap underwent surgery at Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital for a gastric hemorrhage...
...selection surprised almost everyone in Pittsburgh except close associates. The new president of Westinghouse is not even listed in the Pittsburgh Registry of Corporation Executives, and oddly, in view of Burnham's penchant for automation, the head of the Westinghouse union local had never heard...