Word: pittsburgher
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...elected Governor over Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth by 470,000 votes. Scranton (TIME cover. Oct. 19), who matched Dilworth insult for insult in one of the most savage campaigns in recent U.S. history, cut deeply into the Democratic fortress of Philadelphia, won ordinarily Democratic Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) by 52,000 votes. With a Republican legislature to help him, plus patronage powers that will give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with. So desperate is Pennsylvania's economic condition that Scranton...
...Francisco 49ers. Everyone agreed that he could pass, but he was no twinkle toes as a runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants. "Hindsight," says San Francisco Coach Red Hickey mournfully, "is always clearer than foresight." Against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season's second game. Tittle got the kind of protection a passer needs, completed ten of twelve passes for a 17-14 victory that started the Giants on the road to the Eastern Conference championship...
...Biochemistry; Louise B. McCarthy, of 124 Walker St. and Ithaca, N.Y., in English; Miriam R. Milner of Moors, in Linguistics and Slavic; and Elisabeth L. Ward, of Jordan J and Pittsburgh, Pa., in History and Literature...
...accomplishment in Pittsburgh has been luring better teachers at better pay, devising better ways to free them for better teaching. As a result, Pittsburgh boasts the nation's biggest team-teaching effort (8,500 pupils), a solid start in Advanced Placement courses, "lay-reader" housewives who grade English compositions, a 25% higher salary for beginning teachers, and a 10% merit bonus for master teachers. Last year applications for teaching in Pittsburgh schools rose 65%. A skilled lobbyist, Gross quietly wrested $1,500,000 from experiment-minded foundations, got the state legislature to pass a i% wage tax for Pittsburgh...
...second largest producer, shaken by a 59% drop from last year's $33.9 million to this year's $13.9 million, chopped its quarterly dividend from 60? to 37½?. Jones & Laughlin's earnings melted from $10.1 million to $1.9 million while deficits were reported by Pittsburgh Steel ($814,000) 'and Kaiser Steel ($2.5 million). By contrast, steel's tough competitor, Aluminum Co. of America, increased its earnings 26% from $9.4 million to $11.8 million...