Word: pittsburgher
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Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1974, he eschewed baseball for football after graduation, flirting briefly with a pro football career. In 1975 and 1975, Stoeckel traveled north to play for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League--the very squad coached by Crimson gridder coach Joe Restic before he settled in Cambridge. The Ti-Cats in those days possessed a stellar quarterback by the name of Chuck Ealey...
...Detroit, the loss of jobs has been on the scale of a 1930s-style depression, with some 312,000 workers, or nearly one-quarter of the auto industry's work force, unemployed. Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Gary, Ind., and other steel centers are also hard hit, with some 75,000 steelmen, or approximately 18% of the industry's employees, laid...
Jewish voters, who normally cast Democratic ballots, were particularly incensed at a member of the President's family getting so cozy with Libya, one of Israel's most vociferous Arab antagonists. Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and leading Democratic fund raiser: "The Billy Carter connection is the killing blow. It finishes off President Carter with the Jewish vote all over the country. I'm sorry about that because he deserves better...
Finally, the cello has been the means of livelihood for a number of Black musicians, including Leonard Jeter (1881-1970); Donald White (b. 1925), a long-time member of the Cleveland Symphony; and Earl Madison (b. 1945), who joined the Pittsburgh Symphony's cello section at 19. We shall doubtless hear more of Ronald Lipscomb, who like Marcus Thompson made a strong impression at the recent Washington competition...
...attitude gave her a victory in the 10,000 at the Ivy Championships in Princeton, and a strong second at the Easterns in Pittsburgh. "For the first time since I was 15 my times were improving," she says...