Word: pittsburghs
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...about Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and Rockwell-Standard Corp. They are completely separate companies, making different products, although the same Rockwell family is connected with both. We were, shall we say, discouraged on reading in TIME [May 28 that "Willard [Rockwell] Jr., 51, was named president and chief executive ol Pittsburgh's Rockwell Manufacturing Co. last month." The fact is that Willard F. Rockwell Jr. was president of Rockwell Manufacturing Co. for 17 years-from 1947 to 1964. In 1963, he was named president of Rockwell-Standard Corp., a post that he held for over a year simultaneously with...
...BRUCE Director of Public Relations Rockwell Manufacturing Co. Pittsburgh...
...Southampton's first social resident was New York Society Doctor T. Gaillard Thomas, who went there in the 1880s and recommended it to his patients. Eventually, everyone in the upper registers of society followed him. There were the Mellons, the Thaws and the Dilworths from Pittsburgh, the Du Fonts from Delaware, the Morgans and the Murrays from New York. Aside from such "cottages" as the $700,000 mansion that Henry Ford II built, residents support five separate clubs, including the Meadows, which boasts 30 grass tennis courts. Some of the houses and some of the courts have gone to seed...
...years ago, a University of Pittsburgh trustee asked Pitt's Chancellor Edward Harold Litchfield: "Edward, don't you have enough balls up in the air now?" Replied Litchfield, who was running a $100 million drive to upgrade Pitt, promoting a $250 million redevelopment of the school's Oakland neighborhood, serving as chairman of S.C.M. Corp. (formerly Smith Corona Mar-chant), and heading Studebaker Corp.'s Executive Committee: "Maybe I do-but don't call me down on it till I drop one." By last week it was clear that Litchfield had finally fumbled...
...judgment, Litchfield made Pitt a more respected school-to the point that many Pittsburgh-area residents criticize it as too choosy about whom it will admit, and too costly: tuition has nearly tripled, from $537 in 1954 to $1,400 now. When Litchfield arrived, Pitt had 561 full-time faculty members, 56% with Ph.D.s, for its 16,141 students. Today its faculty numbers 1,091, and 84% have Ph.D.s, for a student body that is only about a thousand bigger. Faculty salaries have nearly doubled, averaging $12,126, and the percentage of out-of-state students has grown from about...