Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watch Me, Pap!" With such opposition, Arnold Palmer has need for every skill picked up in a lifetime of golf. He was raised, quite literally, on a golf course. His father, Milfred Jerome ("Deacon") Palmer, was greenskeeper and teaching pro at the club in Latrobe, 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. As a toddler, Arnie rode be tween his father's legs on the tractor-mower, romped in the rough, built castles in the sand traps. He was just seven when he talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning...
...operating rate for the industry, since it permits better planning and less overtime pay. One serious drawback is that 85% of capacity means fewer jobs for steelworkers. So far, the drop in production has meant the layoff of nearly 13,000 steelworkers out of some 90,000 in the Pittsburgh area alone...
Primarily, options are offered to spur initiative and give professional managers a sense of ownership. Says Leland Hazard, director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.: "The stock option is an invitation to aggressiveness. It gives a man the incentive to act as an owner-manager...
...baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year (8-19). This spring, with Friend apparently back on the track, the Pirates ripped off ten straight victories...
...University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas Salk proved to be as good at sidestepping academic wrangling as he was at subduing the polio virus. Next year he will leave Pittsburgh, where he has recently been at odds with the University's administration, go to San Diego, where he will head the projected Institute for Biological Research, adjoining the University of California's La Jolla campus. The institute will be financed by private sources, will presumably give brilliant, self-contained Jonas Salk the job he wants most: being his own boss...