Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astros may not finish in the first division this season. Last week they dropped a four-game series to the Pittsburgh Pirates, knocking themselves back to fifth place. But the adolescents from Houston have grown up with speed, a measure of batting power, a major-league efficiency on the field and, particularly, a confidence in themselves. The high-powered San Francisco Giants have beaten them in 8 out of 12 games this year. But the Astros have beaten the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in seven out of eleven games. Just wait till next year...
...Beach, Zack's in Falmouth, Mass., Big Al's Gas House in Santa Cruz, Calif. When the bars close, it's really time to swing, with all-night parties in motels and rooming houses or, in Saugatuck, Mich., on boats moored in the Kalamazoo River. One Pittsburgh coed, summer-schooling at U.C.L.A. and summering in and around the Oar House at Santa Monica, describes her routine as "swimming, horseback riding, necking-the usual things...
...Daphnis et Chloé Suites, a piece that, until a few years ago, the orchestra could barely manage, owing to a marked deficiency in the brass and woodwinds sections. The short-windedness has since been cured by luring foreign talent-for example, Trombonist Ray Parnes from the Pittsburgh Symphony-with guarantees of rent-free $30,000 homes. Now, says Mehta, "the Israel Philharmonic stands up with the best in Europe, and in the strings it is superior to most orchestras in the U.S. It has virtuosity and temperament...
...ought not to be assumed, according to reliable sources, that this was a trivial occurrence. The class feeling was strong -- registering a pittsburgh on the Zultz Scale. (For reasons that are necessarily obscure the late Dr. Zuitz calibrated his machine on a Boston to-Los Angeles scale.) And October 22 was very early in the class's career at Harvard. Few classes make it past the Hudson before Thanksgiving...
...that is because most homes have gone up under deals made with lenders last year when money was abundant. These commitments are now beginning to expire, and builders can arrange only a trickle of new ones. "It's like a time bomb," says Builder Vincent Amore of Pittsburgh...