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Joint Account. As superfamilies go, the Mellons are remarkably unknown to the public. Thomas Mellon, the paterfamilias, worked his way to a law degree at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh) by doing odd jobs and tutoring less apt students. Soon after hanging out his shingle, he concluded that there was more money to be made in investment than in litigation. In 1870, he opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits...
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH...
...Russian-born, Brooklyn-raised painter has been enamored of abstraction ever since his G.I. bill studies in Paris. When he first attracted national attention in 1961 by winning an award at Pittsburgh's International Exhibition, his prize painting consisted of two painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary...
Pray for Baptism. The most notable recent spread of faith healing and glossolalia has been among college-level Roman Catholics. The movement began last year, when three young theology instructors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh met to pray and found themselves, according to their testimony, simultaneously speaking in tongues. Similar experiments have since been tried at other Catholic schools. At Notre Dame, there is a cell of 30 glossolalia enthusiasts, including students and teachers from nearby St. Mary's College, who meet one night a week for prayer session...
...which runs the airports, is spending $425 million to expand Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports and is meanwhile seeking a site for one more all-new superport. Boston also needs another airfield, whose cost will be over and above the $225 million now allotted to expand Logan International. Pittsburgh, with traffic up 25% in one year, has earmarked $11,800,000 for immediate expansion. Altogether, U.S. airports will spend at least $4.9 billion in the next ten years, but even that may not be enough. Says the New York Port Authority's Aviation Director John R. Wiley: "What...