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...were greeted by a smog so dense, so noxious, that it seeped indoors, giving a brackish smell to hotel lobbies and making one wonder whether India's breakneck economic growth was going to be accompanied by the sort of pollution that made hellholes of old industrial cities such as Pittsburgh and Manchester. By the next day, thankfully, the smog had dispersed, and though that was probably because of a change in the weather, it was easy to believe that it had been blown away by the gale of optimism and self-confidence that India's leaders now routinely display. Though...
...summer of 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Dock Ellis' tossed a no-hitter in a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. But according to Ellis, the real feat wasn't silencing the Padres' bats; it was doing so while under the influence of LSD. If you're looking for footage of the fabled game, you're not going to find it - no tape has ever surfaced, and Major League Baseball hasn't rushed to dig through its archives for documentation of the psychedelic affair. But animator James Blagden has created something arguably better: a black-and-white short...
...film was mostly shot in Pittsburgh. A little in New York, a little in Massachusetts, a little in Chicago, and a little in Oakland. I’d say 70 percent was in Pittsburgh...
...pennant win was smaller, but as the first one to celebrate a local New York team it set a precedent. The Yankees got their first parade seven years later, to mark the start of their new season - despite the fact that they had lost the 1960 World Series to Pittsburgh...
...Within a matter of days we managed to rent vans and get hotels and drive to Pittsburgh for her funeral,” she says...