Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often he also has the attitudes of 100 years ago. While the best police heads have made strides in instilling professionalism in their forces, others, as in Boston, Pittsburgh and Memphis, have not taken even the first step. Few have recognized that in the turbid inner cities more than efficiency is needed, that the cop must indeed be a man of many parts. Among the few: New York's Howard Leary, Washington's Patrick Murphy, Atlanta's Herbert Jenkins, St. Louis' Curtis Brostron. And, of course, Tom Reddin...
...award might better have been divvied up among the twelve pitchers. If the game signified anything, it was that baseball has become a pitcher's preserve. Going into the All-Star break, only twelve batters in both leagues were above the .300 mark, and only two of them-Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (.344) and Cincinnati's Pete Rose (.329)-were hitting over .320. Atlanta's Henry Aaron, a lifetime .316 hitter, is currently batting .248; Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, a four-time batting champion, is chopping at .252. Six National League and 13 American League...
...Nixon's strength in affluent downstate counties. Pennsylvania gave 51.2% of its votes to John F. Kennedy eight years ago. But the Philadelphia Democratic machine, which produced a 331,554-vote bulge for J.F.K., has rusted badly since Bill Green's death; so has the Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) machine now that Dave Lawrence is gone. That makes the state a question mark...
...Somewhat better than satisfactory," is the way that Ralph Burt Gookin, president of H. J. Heinz Co., describes the fiscal year that has just ended. Gookin, whom Chairman Henry J. Heinz II picked in 1966 to be the first non-Heinz ever to run the giant Pittsburgh packing company, has every right to be proud...
...collecting wild animals in Kenya. Dr. Matthew T. Mellon, a retired art-history professor who, at 71, is the eldest male in the U.S. branch of the family, stayed with the Duke of Abercorn - which is more than his grandparents ever did. Dr. Mellon has not been in Pittsburgh for years; he has houses in Jamaica, Kitzbuhel and Manhattan...