Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corridor of light, an unbroken, 450-mile-long conglomeration of 37 million Americans that is referred to by demographers as "the Eastern Megalopolis." Another area is growing even faster, and will ultimately pose bigger problems. This is the potential "Great Lakes Megalopolis," which will soon stretch without interruption from Pittsburgh to Chicago, by the year 2000 will contain a population of 45 million. Fortunately, in the opinion of City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, the great heartland megalopolis has a natural focus and headquarters in Detroit -if the city will only rise to the challenge...
Manifest Destiny. By that time, both Chicago and Pittsburgh will have expanded until the edges of the three cities touch. Because of its key location on the St. Lawrence waterway and at the junction of East-West rail and motor routes, Detroit "is in the most advantageous location to act as the central urban area of this space." To be sure, Doxiadis added firmly, "Detroit's role is not the most important at present. It is an industrial center, but it does not provide services for a major urban area. It is not attractive as a center city...
...Supermarket boycotts spread like butter on a sizzling griddle last week. Encouraged by reports that several shopping-cart blockades the week before had forced the great chains to lower some prices, housewives marched in more than 100 cities. Placard-waving pickets popped up in places as disparate as Pittsburgh and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Washington, B.C. and Lubbock, Texas. Esther Peterson, the former Utah schoolteacher who is the President's special assistant for consumer affairs, egged on a band of New York City demonstrators, urging them to "vote with the dollar...
...especially dull football. He has always had a knack for developing topnotch passers and receivers-"probably," cracks Navy Coach Bill Elias, "because his ancestors got practice catching figs that fell out of trees." At Northwestern, Ara produced Flanker Paul Flatley (now with the Minnesota Vikings) and Quarterback Tommy Myers (Pittsburgh Steelers); at Notre Dame in 1964, it was Quarterback Huarte and End Jack Snow (Los Angeles Rams). After Huarte and Snow graduated in 1965, Parseghian had to settle for grind-it-out ground attack; although the Irish lost only two games, he still shivers at the memory...
...factories hummed at 93% of capacity, that rate was no higher than it had been at the start of the year. Lagging demand for steel, the economy's most basic ingredient, last week prompted giant U.S. Steel Corp. to announce plans to close its National Works near Pittsburgh. "Across the board," said Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block, "the pace of new orders is not up to where we thought it would...