Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngsters are juniors and seniors at Roman Catholic St. Thomas High School in mill-town Braddock near Pittsburgh. But every morning at 7 they board a public school bus and ride 13 miles to tax-supported Forbes Trail Area Technical School in Monroeville. For three hours at Forbes, a lavish technical citadel serving 15 other Allegheny County schools on a part-time basis, the Catholic kids study such nonreligious matters as computer programming and chemical technology. Then they ride a bus to St. Thomas High for an afternoon of religion, social studies and English in a "God-centered" climate...
Religious Illiteracy. For many Catholic parents, the hard choice is between ill-equipped, overcrowded parochial schools and public schools that threaten Catholic children with what Pittsburgh's diocesan school superintendent, the Very Rev. Msgr. John B. McDowell, calls "religious illiteracy." McDowell also warns that non-Catholics in many areas face an equal problem if Catholics are forced to cut back their own schools and thousands of youngsters flood the public schools...
College Football (CBS, 1 p.m. to end). First N.C.A.A. game of the week for this season-the University of Miami v. the University of Pittsburgh...
...Airborne Academic. Litchfield has now spent or earmarked some $126 million for ambitious expansion-and rubbed raw nerves all over town and gown. Spending freely, he has literally taken over the city's Oakland area, buying up the Pittsburgh Pirates' Forbes Field and the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married. He now aims to super develop Oakland into a vast cultural center costing $250 million...
...fronter, cleared him in an eloquent brief defending Pitt's inalienable right to "free inquiry." Sensitive to criticism. Litchfield is given to hiring pollsters to gauge Pitt's public "image." The Madison Avenue approach appalls academic purists. But it turns out that among the leading citizenry of Pittsburgh, 65% now feel "highly favorable" to the emerging university...