Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleveland 34--Pittsburgh...
...Pittsburgh International Exhibition, held at the Carnegie Institute every three years, is one of the three best-known international art competitions in the world, together with the Venice and São Paulo biennials. It is also the most hard pressed. While the other two are under government sponsorship and invite nations to submit and finance their individual exhibits, the Pittsburgh exhibition, founded in 1896 by Andrew Carnegie, is backed almost entirely by a few private donors, principally the Mellon family...
Time was when the Carnegie International was handsomely equipped to scour the world and bring the finest in contemporary art to Pittsburgh. But the current budget of $160,000 does not go far in today's rapidly expanding art world. The U.S.'s current exhibit at São Paulo alone cost $70,000 to mount. Despite his budgetary problems, Director Gustave von Groschwitz unveiled a formidable 44th Carnegie exhibition last week. An international jury found so many works of merit that it selected not one, but six artists as winners of $2,000 prizes (see color pages...
Dallas 24, Pittsburgh...
...that they believed that flying saucers originated in outer space; in Tampa, Fla., 67% confessed to WFLA that they cheat on their income tax. When asked if they would vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1968, response was a resounding no from 63% of the callers in Houston, 77% in Pittsburgh and 82% in Minneapolis. Among the Republican candidates, Reagan ranked the highest and Romney the lowest in New Orleans and Minneapolis. Other polls indicate that viewers are strongly in favor of sex education in public schools, liberalization of abortion laws, and reopening the investigation of the Kennedy assassination...