Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Reverend John J. Wright, Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh...
...Some two miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh lies a stretch of land called Panther Hollow, more colloquially known as "The Gulch." The jagged, 1,000-ft.-wide ravine runs 150 ft. deep and a mile long, an ugly supergully slashing between the green campuses of Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rumbles along its bottom, flanked by a few slum houses, construction storage yards, truck depots and a junkyard. Most cities would give it up as a desolate though semiserviceable eyesore. Not Pittsburgh, which has announced plans to convert the 75-acre Panther...
...project was originated by the University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor Dr. Edward H. Litchfield, who last year founded the Oakland Corp. as a private development company, and enlisted the support of a group of nonprofit city institutions. Fred Smith, who was the prime mover of the massive Prudential Research Center in Boston, was brought in as president and operating head (Litchfield is board chairman), and Architect Max Abramovitz, who designed the Philharmonic Hall in New York's Lincoln Center, was hired...
...beginning. The company expects to take a major hand in the implementation of Oakland's new master plan, which calls for the expenditure of $750 million over the next ten years in renovating and improving the surrounding area. The program is being billed as Phase 2 in Pittsburgh's massive Mellon-sponsored "Renaissance," which has already virtually rebuilt the downtown area into the famed Golden Triangle...
...makers slipped by 2% to 3% in the two days after the Florida ruling. In similar damage cases elsewhere, the courts have been trending against the cigarette companies. At first, courts from Massachusetts to Louisiana threw out the damage claims; then last November a federal district court jury in Pittsburgh found that Chesterfields (Liggett & Myers) had been "one of the causes" of lung cancer in a suing carpenter, but absolved the company on grounds that the smoker had knowingly assumed the risk. The Florida court went much far ther, ruling that American Tobacco's very act of marketing...