Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, his appeal seemed largely confined to New York City. Now just about everybody seems to be enchanted by Bobby and his friends-Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Cy Coleman and Stephen Sondheim. By the end of April he will have appeared in Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. At the end of this week he will entertain the Reagans and their special guest, Prince Charles, at the White House-his third gig at the Executive Mansion since...
...Pittsburgh 7, New York...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 8. New York 0 Houston 2. Atlanta 1 Montreal 6. Philladelphia 3 St. Louis at Chicago-Rain San Diego 2. Cincinnati...
Other first round choices were: running back Freeman McNeil, UCLA, by the Jets: running back Randy McMillian, Pittsburgh, by Baltimore: running back David Overstreet, Oklahoma, by Miami: running back James Brooks, Aubern, by San Diego: running back Booker Moore, PennState, by Buffalo: linebacker Lawrence Taylor, N. Carolina, by the Giants: and offensive tackle Brain Hollaway, Stanford, by the patriots...
Invisible, otherwise undetectable, luck can be known only by its works. It is the strange, unknowable force that deposited Lana Turner in a Schwab's pharmacy 46 years ago, that placed a football in Franco Harris' hands ("the immaculate reception") at the end of the Pittsburgh-Oakland championship game in 1972, that put Carl Bernstein in the newsroom of the Washington Post a few hours after the police found a strange collection of characters at the Watergate. (Actually, Watergate was a regular soap opera of the fortuitous: if one of the burglars had not stupidly left tape over...