Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh housewife and the old cannibal mother goddess of the ancient Mediterranean. The amazing thing about this painting, which Freud, Jung and Eliade would understand, is that Koerner had no conscious plan when he began to create...
...RABBI) RICHARD L. RUBENSTEIN Pittsburgh...
Under a sign exhorting "Stand Up for America," Wallace mounted a rostrum at the Pittsburgh Hilton to address his first Northern audience since announcing for the presidency. While an S.R.O. crowd of 2,000 cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...
...impending catastrophe. The expanded league, they insisted, was too big, financially shaky (think of all those extra travel bills), badly unbalanced in the quality of play. Stocked with castoffs, minor leaguers and even non-Canadians (four Americans, one Scot, one Pole), the new West Division teams in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Oakland could hardly be expected to furnish much competition for the established East Division clubs. And when they were slaughtered by scores of say 15-0, who would come out to see them play? Auditoriums would empty, franchises would fold, and the N.H.L. would...
Died. Dr. Thomas Parran, 75, Surgeon General of the U.S. from 1936 to 1948, a founder of the World Health Organization, and leader of the long campaign against venereal disease; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Few have done more to bring modern medicine to the nation's poor than this gentlemanly physician; he fought typhoid and hookworm in South Carolina, smallpox in Colorado, tuberculosis in New York slums. In the struggle against venereal disease, he distributed educational pamphlets across the U.S., campaigned for widespread syphilis tests, and relentlessly tracked the sources of infection to such effect that the number...