Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of Dec. 13, FBI men entered a flophouse in Bridgewater, Pa., and arrested a chunky character named Ralph Charlton Hobbs. The G-men charged that he was one of a gang that last July stole ten paintings from the home of Millionaire Collector G. David Thompson in the Pittsburgh suburb of Whitehall. Hobbs was picked up after he opened direct negotiations with Thompson on Thompson's no-questions-asked offer of $100,000 for the return of the paintings. In fact, to show his good faith, Hobbs had returned one Picasso; the G-men. after trailing Hobbs...
...Naysayers. Businessmen who flatly oppose the whole idea of freer trade may be a minority, but get heard. Notable among them is Colonel Willard F. Rock well, chairman of Pittsburgh's Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and Rockwell-Stand ard Corp. (pumps, valves, automotive parts and Aero Commander planes). Says he: "With high U.S. wages and raw-material costs, high taxes and low depreciation write-offs, I don't know of a single U.S. product that could compete with European industry." The nearest thing to unanimous opposition to the Kennedy program was heard among businessmen in the South - partly because...
...GLASS. With imported sheet glass taking 32.5% of 1960 sales (v. 15.4% m 1955), Vice President Robinson F. Barker of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. says: "We see no real hope of sharing any growth in the U.S. market unless effective tariff re lief is granted...
George A. Goldberg '63 of Quincy House and Mount Vernon, N.Y., was elected president, F. James Levinson '64 of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, Pa. vice-president, and Miss Christine F. Atwood '63 of Slater House and Storrs, Conn., treasurer...
Playing in Pittsburgh on its way East last night Harvard defeated Carnegie Tech 72-64, to increase its season record to seven wins and three losses...