Word: pittsburgher
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...practice spreads, coaches are also pressed to encourage grade repetition by townspeople who want winning high school teams. Says Andy Urbanic, head coach at Pittsburgh's Penn Hills High School: "The pressure to win at all costs begins to come down on the coaches, who in turn put it on the kids' heads." But some coaches have resisted and won nonetheless. Lloyd Bohanon, coach of Georgia's championship runner-up, Griffin High, says parents have asked him about holding their sons back. "I've never advised anyone to do it," Bohanon says. "A kid sees only...
Well it might be. Born in 1936 in Derry, Pa. (pop. 3,400), near Pittsburgh, Boyer is the son of a railroad conductor and brakeman. Early on he was more inclined toward football than scholarship. His high school class voted him "most athletic"; his own ambition, he wrote presciently in his yearbook, was "to become a successful businessman." He also developed a taste for science. Encouraged by his hard-driving high school coach, who doubled as a science and math instructor, he went on to pursue those subjects at nearby St. Vincent College, a demanding Benedictine school. A few summers...
...Vincent to deliver a class report on DNA, which had only recently been firmly established as the molecule that forms genes. Says Boyer: "I got hooked. There was something very beautiful about it. It explained a lot of things." After earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed in his subject that he named his Siamese cats Watson and Crick. He also became disheartened by public events-the draining agony over the war in Viet Nam, assassinations, racial unrest. "I thought our political system was falling apart...
...Princeton University aquawomen held off a strong challenge from Pitt Panthers Saturday night at Pittsburgh's Trees Pool to recapture first-place honors in the Eastern AIAW Swimming and Diving Championships with 793 points...
...their win in the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships two weeks ago, the Princeton University aquawomen demonstrated last night that their strength is not just limited to the Ivy League, as they held on to a tenuous 30 point lead over national powers like Penn State and Pittsburgh at the conclusion of the second day of the Eastern AIAW Swimming and Diving Championships in Pittsburgh...