Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each other off in their own stadiums. Now and then, though, the Texas schools step out of state-and their highfalutin' intersectional opponents often wish the Texans had stayed home on the range. Already this season, such familiar foundries as Ohio State (tied by Texas Christian, 7-7), Pittsburgh (beaten by Baylor, 16-13) and Kansas (beaten by T.C.U., 17-16) have learned the hard way that Texans take their football seriously...
...Major league baseball attendance was down 5.6% in 1961, but other statistics were impressive. Detroit's Norm Cash (.361) took the American League batting championship. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente (.351) won the National League crown. Top American League pitcher was New York's Whitey Ford (25-4); big winners in the National League were Cincinnati's Joey Jay and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, with 21 victories each...
...Talk More." Charlie Wilson had an inventive mind. The son of Ohio schoolteacher parents, he went to work for the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. in Pittsburgh as an 18?-an-hour apprentice engineer, by the time he was 22 had designed Westinghouse's first auto starter and was on his way up. He also had a touch for labor-management relations. Having moved to General Motors and become its youngest vice president, at 38, he was assigned by G.M. President William Knudsen to take charge of the corporation's dealings with labor. "You have more patience than...
...industry's pace. To remedy this, Aniline's new, Kennedy-appointed board last week chose as chairman and chief executive officer U.S. Industries Chairman John I Snyder Jr., 52. A strong Democrat and an executive of proven skill, Snyder built the highly diversified U.S. Industries out of Pittsburgh's old Pressed Steel Car Co. Says he: "I don't think Kodak has known that Ansco was around-but it will...
...When directors of troubled Chrysler Corp. tapped Lynn Townsend, 42, as president (TIME, Aug. 4), they gave him only one-third of the corporate power. Last week the other two-thirds was given to Executive Committee Chairman George Hutchinson Love, 61, who, as chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co., is also the nation's biggest coalman. Chrysler's directors turned to Love because he is a proven comeback champion (his Consolidation is highly profitable despite the slump in coal). New Chairman Love will make policy and wield virtually the same powers as did former Chairman Lester...