Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously Fatha knows best, for through all his ups and downs, he has never tried to alter his style to serve fashion. Hines's playing today, save for a heightened sense of surprise, is practically the same as it was when he came out of Pittsburgh as the most original jazz pianist around. His own father had played the cornet, and Earl adapted its lusty, brassy quality to the keyboard, learned to chop out big, gaudy chords in order to be heard through a blaring orchestra. The technique was further refined when he teamed with Louis Armstrong...
...Market. The idea of tinkering with the tax credit worries many businessmen, if only because plant expansion often requires decisions on spending two or three years ahead of the actual outlays. "Tax and depreciation incentives created the boom in the first place," said Chairman Willard F. Rockwell of Pittsburgh's Rockwell-Standard Corp. "If they cut down the investment credit they'll be in a slump much faster than they expect...
...biggest strike in U.S. airline history dragged through its first full week, disruptive effects large and small spread across the entire U.S. economy and throughout the everyday life of Americans. Thousands of vacationers canceled travel plans. Hotel bookings dropped sharply in such varied cities as Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and Honolulu. Miami Beach hotels, heavily dependent on package air tours for summer trade, laid off employees as occupancy rates shrank as much as 25% below normal...
Schools unable to maintain their own capital representatives can now turn instead to a growing number of Washington firms that call themselves "educational consultants." One such com pany was formed recently by Edgar B. Cale, former vice chancellor for the University of Pittsburgh. "We don't contemplate pressuring Congressmen at present," he says. "We'll take what's on the books and that's plenty." Still another educational consultant is Leo S. Tonkin Associates, which recently hired as associate director a young man with a promising future in Washington circles-Luci's fiance Pat Nugent...
Clemente, Pittsburgh...