Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community conspires to oust them, the hippies have been setting up well-organized but acephalous communes, with ordinances that prescribe nonviolence and charity. "We're not political," explained Gretchen Dickson, a 17-year-old blonde from Pittsburgh. "We just want to be beautiful." To relieve tension, many hippies have fled higher up into the mountains. But some 10,000 more are expected to pass through Taos this summer as word of its pristine seclusion gets around...
Lower-Middle Income. The La-zorcaks of suburban Pittsburgh -Diane, 30, Paul, 33, and two sons, aged five and two-have found that, as Mrs. Lazorcak puts it, "only the wealthy can afford inflation." On a net income of $8,600 last year, which was $1,500 less than in 1967, the La-zorcaks certainly cannot afford it. Husband and wife work together in D's Pizza Shop, which they own. Mr. Lazorcak has raised his pizza prices from $1.50 to $2 in the last 18 months but cannot keep up with the climbing costs of such simple items...
Special hour-long edition from Pittsburgh, where the U.S. Conference of Mayors is being held...
There are a few encouraging exceptions to the battle against poverty-notably in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and Atlanta-but the crisis situation is nationwide. Six years...
Parallels with the present-day U.S. are freely drawn. Such cities as Detroit, Pittsburgh and Rochester, the author warns, are more like Manchester than Birmingham. Each depends on a few specialized products and so does not enough encourage new kinds of work. Boston, on the other hand, looks much healthier to Jane Jacobs, for it has revived its stagnating economy with a swarm of small, flexible electronics and research firms. Postwar Los Angeles also draws praise for spawning new companies to produce goods and services (sliding glass doors, mechanical saws) once imported from other cities. In range of activities, though...