Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE SCHROEDER Pittsburgh...
...territory off limits to aliens before World War II; tourists who did visit the U.S.S.R. were assigned Intourist guides to keep them from straying. In 1955 the State Department finally retaliated by banning Soviet visitors from some 27% of the U.S. on a tit-for-tat basis (e.g., Pittsburgh was closed because the Russians forbade U.S. tourists to visit the Soviet steel center of Magnitogorsk...
...Doubt. In 1937 Roosevelt named Black to the Supreme Court-partly because Black was the sort of liberal that F.D.R. wanted, partly because protocol would make his rejection by the Senate almost impossible. Opposition to Black's appointment was great, but it rose to a crescendo after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette dug up proof that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan for two years. (The reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for his revelation.) Like some other Southern politicians, Black had joined the Klan to further his career. But, he explained, he had no sympathy...
...surprising to me that Mr. Kennedy didn't just go ahead and call the New York Herald Tribune [June 8] a "gigantic corporation" and . . . well, you know the rest. MICHAEL NICHOLSON Pittsburgh...
...kept on hand in the 1950s. Above all, the steelmakers complain that President Kennedy's determination to hold the price line denies them the capital that they need to cut their costs through modernization of their plants. At the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan fortnight ago, Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. summed up the industry's complaints: "Prices must be high enough to build the markets of tomorrow. We need tremendous new investment in ultramodern facilities, and the money to finance this investment is ultimately derived from just one source-profits...