Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VOLUNTARY PAY CUT will be taken by workers at financially ailing Pittsburgh Steel Co., 14th largest U.S. steel company. Union agreed to reduction that will eventually save company 15? per man-hour in incentive-pay costs...
...Pittsburgh...
...roll call of the nation's great cities is changing dramatically, 1960 census figures proved last week. Such aging centers as New York, Chicago and Detroit are fighting to keep their rank while losing thousands to the green suburbs. Some venerable metropolises-Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland and San Francisco-are slipping in rank and population, while such fresh new giants as Houston, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Tampa are rising fast in the West and South. Rank of the nation's 50 largest cities...
...novel's central character is Ike-o Hartwell, who was born in a toilet in a Pittsburgh slum called Sobaski's Stair way. He grew up amid the neon glow of pawn shops and poolrooms on Mechanic Avenue, where the purple nights resounded to the clank and clatter of the street cars, the prancing polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young...
...this excellent first novel, Pittsburgh-born Author Goran ranges familiarly through the yawning tenements and squalid streets of his slum, and even drops an unsentimental tear when bulldozers in the 1950s level it to a field of bricks in prep aration for the sterile rectangles of public housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski...