Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quebec 2, Pittsburgh...
...blacks put Carter over the top in 1976. Almost 19 out of 20 black Americans voted for the former governor of Georgia in that election. New Yorkers went for Carter by nearly a 2-to-1 margin offsetting the pro-Ford upstate vote. Voters in Cincinatti, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh also swung their states into the Democratic camp. Even the "solid South" would have split between Ford and Carter had not Southern city-dwellers faithfully come out for the farmer from Plains...
...Still others said to forget about the plant and transform Hamtramck into a free trade zone or a tourist attraction, like a Polish-theme park. "What Hamtramck does," said one participant, Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, "will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays somewhat pessimistically: "It's almost as though you're seeing the death of the manufacturing city right here. And my point is: don't resurrect it. Why try to rebuild something that is gone...
Most statesmen agree that history suggests that the best chance for peace is massive preparedness. General Matthew Ridgway, 84, our Korean commander and later Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, stood straight and proud before a group in Pittsburgh the other day and said that the trouble with all the war talk is that we do not have the hardware to carry out our intentions...
Director Lament Johnson's Paul's Case is also a tragedy ripe with '20s detail. Paul is a dreamy high school kid who yearns to escape wintry Pittsburgh for the Broadway high life he has read about in Sunday supplements. Once he achieves his goal-by stealing money-his ambitions are easily satisfied. He takes a suite at the Waldorf, buys clothes and eavesdrops on the swells. Unfortunately, he has no idea how to turn his briefly realized fantasy into a lasting reality...