Word: pittsburgher
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...nation (see chart). In the East they include De Witt Clinton's historic New York State Barge Canal, the Hudson River, and the sheltered coastal route that amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats to chuff through bleak coulees 365 miles into the interior of Washington...
...Than the Queen. In many respects, life on the river remains much as it was in the days when Mark Twain leaned out of a filigreed pilothouse to spot his passage. But some things have changed. Nowadays, when rivermen hit New Orleans after the 18-day voyage down from Pittsburgh, they rush to make the quickest turnaround possible with new cargo bound upriver, often leave within a couple of hours...
Although Pastor Fliedner himself escorted four Lutheran deaconesses from Germany to Pittsburgh in 1849, religious organizations for women never grew in the U.S. as prosperously as they have in Europe. The Methodist Church has only about 800 deaconesses, the various Lutheran groups fewer than 700. There are about 800 Protestant Episcopal sisters in 15 orders - most of them offshoots of English convents. Why the slow growth? "It's probably because American women have greater opportunities for education and a variety of vocations are open to them," says Sister Eleanor Falk, president of the Lutheran Deaconess Conference of America...
...John E. Wideman. 21. the son of a Pittsburgh waiter, is a senior majoring in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Wideman won the campus creative-writing prize, last month got his Phi Beta Kappa key. this year captained Penn's undefeated basketball team. Last week, hours after hurdling the Rhodes selection committee. Captain Wideman led Penn to victory over Vanderbilt topped his team's scoring with 18 points. His Oxford agenda: language and literature in order to teach college English...
After a conflict-of-interest scandal involving William C. Newberg, Colbert's personal choice to run Chrysler's day-today operations, there was an outburst of stockholder suits and public recriminations. Chrysler Director George Love, 62, the big, amiable chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co., stepped in to fill the leadership breach. With the support of a committee of outside directors, he ousted Colbert. But the task of finding a new president and operating boss for Chrysler proved difficult. Unable to persuade anyone outside the company to risk the job, the directors in July 1961 turned to Administrative Vice...