Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Moscow, in a ten-minute broad cast beamed at the United States last night, addressed a warning to the "people of New York and San Francisco... to the Pittsburgh steel smelter, the California farmer...and to the Harvard student...
There was Paul Etoga, husky Negro Bishop of Mbalmayo in Cameroun, who had spent all his money on transportation to Rome, and reached the Vatican hungry. There was Pittsburgh's Bishop John Wright, who many Roman Catholic laymen believe will be the next U.S. cardinal. There was a former fisherman (Rufino Cardinal Santos of Manila) and a former count (Ernesto Sena de Oliveira of Portugal). There was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Communist Poland, who raised a finger to his lips to hush those who were cheering him. There were, in all, 2,700 of them-the spiritual leaders...
...Pittsburgh last week the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., largest U.S..producer of stainless steel, lopped 2% off its prices on key grades "to make ourselves competitive." Coming hard on the heels of a recent 12% price slash by California's Kaiser Steel Corp.. which virtually eliminated the historic differential between Eastern and Western steel, and last month's sharp reductions (as much as 19%) in posted prices by the Aluminum Co. of America, the Allegheny Ludlum move was the latest evidence of a general softening in the prices of industrial materials. According to the Labor Department...
Last week's ruling was the work of Sylvester Garrett, 50, a Pittsburgh lawyer who earned his reputation as an arbitrator in steel industry disputes and was appointed three weeks ago by President Kennedy to end a month-long telegraphers' strike against the C. & N.W. (The other two members of the arbitration board-C. & N.W. Chairman Ben Heineman and Telegraphers' President George Leighty-canceled each other out.) The essence of Garrett's decision was that al though the C. & N.W. must discuss proposed layoffs with the union, the final decision would be the railroad...
Last year, the New Yorkers squashed the Cincinnati Reds in five quick games. The season before that, Pittsburgh stopped Casey Stengel's bunch in seven, but not before Bomber bats had scored more runs than any other baseball nine in series history. The Pirates triumphed in 60 by pouncing on such chronic Yankee weaknesses as shaky pitching and erratic fielding...