Word: pittsburghs
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Cities such as Pittsburgh and St. Louis, which after World War II enforced vigorous and successful campaigns to clear smoke from their skies, have now discovered that their drives against pollution have only just begun. A full 90% of U.S. air pollution consists of largely invisible but potentially deadly gases. More than half of the contamination in the air over the U.S., for example, consists of colorless, odorless carbon monoxide, most of it issuing from the exhaust pipes of automobiles, trucks and buses...
During the ten-year tenure of former Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, the University of Pittsburgh gained stature and generated excitement before tailspinning into insolvency (TIME, July 2, 1965). Last week Pitt pinned its hopes for regaining level flight on one of the sharpest intellects in the U.S. Air Force. The university's trustees named Colonel Wesley W. Posvar, 41, founding chairman of the Air Force Academy's political science department, as new chancellor, effective June...
...Nothing to Lose." Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders lays most of the blame squarely on the railroad he formerly headed: the Norfolk & Western. "A campaign of delay is being conducted in good part by the Norfolk & Western Railway," Saunders told the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce recently. "With everything to gain and nothing to lose, the N. & W. seems to want to prolong as long as it possibly can the tremendous competitive advantages gained from its own merger with the Nickel Plate and Wabash, which has been in effect for more than two years." Saunders called the N. & W. "the Marie Antoinette...
...live forever without all of these: Guttural guttersnipes, memorable moments, bugs in Berkeley, battles of the books, booms with booms, pragmatic views of privacy, official obstructions, pandemonium in Pittsburgh, mathematic models, contracting clouds, anxious ages, gawking goons, immature Ymas, frenzied flamencos, period pieces, copy cats, project parties, sins and souls, damn dots, Hiltons on the Hudson, nasties for Noel, and Concurrent Cliches...
...sentence of up to 40 years, Fiok rattled off contempt citations that added up to a total of 37 years to be served in solitary confinement and at hard labor. Unhappily, the trio must now also be tried for their mid-trial escape-unless the state takes mercy on Pittsburgh judges and drops the charges...