Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conductor William Steinberg is a threat to American musical tradition. For one thing, he is downright chummy with his Pittsburgh Symphony musicians. For another, he blatantly delights in performing "the music nobody wants to play, nobody wants to conduct and nobody wants to hear." The traditional image of the success ful symphony conductor is a shaggy-haired despot who rules with an iron fist and remains disdainfully aloof at all times. But Steinberg treats his musicians with courtesy and respect, regales them with a rich sense of humor, rides in the bus with them on tour, and preaches such heresies...
...nickname Frazee earned by getting born in Pittsburgh...
They sure don't in Dallas, where the Cowboys play their exhibitions on Saturday and televise them the following day; thousands of fans refuse to look at the Sunday sports pages until the telecast is over. They don't care in Pittsburgh, either. After the Steelers lost their second straight exhibition to the Browns last week, one rooter groaned: "The season hasn't even started, and already we're waiting till next year...
...fairly broad family of products but concentrate on selling to close-to-home markets, thus paring freight rates. Most of the smaller companies, however, prosper by producing just a few kinds of steel. By specializing in stainless steel, which sells for about seven times as much as basic grades, Pittsburgh's highly profitable Allegheny Ludlum has become the industry's ninth largest seller (1963 sales: $259 million), although it is only about 20th in terms of tonnage...
Lukens Steel of Coatesville, Pa., concentrates on the heavy plates used in ships and in large tanks for liquids, and Pittsburgh's Crucible Steel has become the world's largest manufacturer of steel for tools. Sharon Steel of Sharon, Pa., is a major producer of the strip steel that goes into office furniture and such auto parts as dashboards. Texas' Lone Star Steel converts local ore into pipes for oilmen, boasts overnight delivery to almost any driller in the Southwest. Says Lone Star Chairman George A. Wilson: "We've just got to give better service than...