Word: pittsburgher
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...remaining $300 million is left to trusts held by two banks in Miami and Pittsburgh. Earmarked for two Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the net in come will be used "exclusively for such religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes within the United States and its possessions as the trustees shall see fit." Since only 154 of the 15,000 existing U.S. foundations have assets of more than $10 million, the Davis kitty is among the biggest on record, and it will grow. John D. Rockefeller, for example, put up a mere $182.6 million to launch the Rockefeller Foundation, which...
...October, and most of this was because steel companies are finally beginning to receive substantial calls for more supplies from the booming automakers. But steelmakers have taken such a beating all year that they are afraid to take too much heart at these signs of turnaround. Warns one Pittsburgh executive: "Don't get any idea that the increase in manufacturers' orders means that the steel industry is going to end the year in a big surge. It just isn't there...
...last week said a noted pulse taker of U.S. campus life, President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, before a meeting of U.S. state-university presidents in Washington, D.C. How to preserve small-unit living on big campuses is the problem, says Critic Eddy. The "three, four-and sometimes ten-story hotel which often serves as a dormitory" is no solution. But neither is preservation of fraternities: "Time has run out for the national fraternity system. It has failed to adapt itself to the demands of the new student and to a changing social pattern...
...restraint has confounded them. Instead of trying to lure his partners into big, risky new realty enterprises, Zeckendorf has manfully sold one property after another to acquire new working capital. Last week he spun off five urban redevelopment projects in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to Alcoa Urban Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of mighty Aluminum Co. of America, which wants to do a little diversifying in a way that will also promote the use of aluminum construction. Alcoa gave Zeckendorf Property Corp. (an equal partnership between the British consortium and Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.) $10 million...
...ranked college football team. Trailing 3-0 at the half, second-ranked Alabama came back for 23 points in the third quarter, trounced Miami, 36-3. Undefeated Southern California moved a step closer to the Rose Bowl by walloping Stanford, 39-14. In major upsets, Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh, 43-22; Purdue defeated Michigan State, 17-9; Oklahoma State downed Army, 12-7; and Harvard trounced Princeton...