Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goals for our city are high goals, and they will require brains, action, sweat, talent and muscle. Our program should be as big as our problems. Other cities have done it. Pittsburgh did it with air pollution. Chicago did it with crime. San Francisco is doing it with mass transit. Detroit is doing it with housing and schools...
...name in New York's Jewish districts, came on as campaign chairman. Money flowed in from the Rockefeller family, New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer, and from purses farther west-notably from Tire Tycoon Leonard K. Firestone in California and Food Magnate H. J. Heinz II in Pittsburgh. In all, the Lindsay campaign cost close to $2,000,000 and, as usual, wound up in debt...
...Chautauqua, N.Y., where he became the first youth in the county to win the Boy Scouts' God and Country Award. He was raised a Presbyterian, but gradually became interested in Quaker beliefs, particularly pacifism, while a student at Wooster College. He later studied at a Presbyterian seminary in Pittsburgh and at the University of Edinburgh, and joined the Society of Friends in 1959. Since 1962 he had been executive secretary of the Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore. In recent months, Morrison had. been deeply disturbed about U.S. bombing in Viet Nam, although colleagues detected no outside sign...
...President Kenneth V. Larkin says that only one in every seven families in California now has a credit card, estimates that one out of three-possibly even two out of three-is in a good enough economic position for card ownership. Thomas W. Gormly, senior vice president of the Pittsburgh National Bank, predicts a new era of credit-card merchandising, believes that the U.S. is already a "long step toward a cashless and checkless society." Dags, a chain of 19?-hamburger stands in Seattle, thinks so too. Recently it printed its own garishly embossed credit cards and sent them...
Died. William McKechnie, 78, one of baseball's most successful managers, who with a gentle schoolmasterliness that made him known as "the Deacon" won pennants over a 27-year career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1928) and the Cincinnati Reds (1939 and 1940) and a niche in the Hall of Fame as the only man to take three teams to the top; of pneumonia; in Bradenton...