Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporters in the field filed 250,000 words. Researcher Piri Halasz, who covered the "head office town" of New York, interviewed 15 top executives and economists. Her report to Writer Marshall Loeb and Business Editor Robert Christopher totaled 50 pages. In Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Washington, correspondents talked to some 35 chairmen and presidents, as many vice presidents, as well as investment bankers and economists (among economists we seek to strike a balance between university, government and corporate economists, since each has his special interests and insights. Few of the men who contributed...
Trust No One. What mainly messed up Rover was a complicated organizational system that has scattered authority about like confetti. Responsibility for Rover was fuzzily divided between the AEC and NASA. Vital component work was assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there...
...morale. If you can bring down their best men, it's all over." Opponents respect the tactic. On defense, explains Philadelphia Linebacker Chuck Bednarik. "the Packers just hand you the ball and say. 'Here it is, see what you can do with it.' " On offense, says Pittsburgh Quarterback Bobby Layne. "everybody knows what's coming, but the point is that you can't stop...
When Fordham played powerhouse Pittsburgh to a 0-0 standoff in 1936. Lombardi put on a tremendous one-man show: he helped stop Pitt's deepest drive with a key tackle at the Fordham four, and his crashing blocks punched holes in the massive Pittsburgh line. "We had a play on which I was supposed to trap the Pitt tackle." recalls Lombardi. "It worked fine, so our quarterback kept calling...
...trip from the 50-yd. line to the bench was a proud one for Byron R. ("Whizzer") White, 45. An All-America halfback at Colorado ('37). White won a Rhodes scholarship, played pro football for Pittsburgh and Detroit, finished at the top of his class at Yale Law School, finally made the biggest time of all when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor...