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...Bates College in Lewiston, Me., Correspondent Joelle Attinger came across two students who voted for Reagan because they felt he was best equipped to cut federal waste. Says Attinger: "Now both may have to leave Bates because of pending cuts in the student loan program." In Denver, Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury visited a food stamp center, only to find that some people were too embarrassed to talk to him. Says he: "For many aid recipients there is a deep stigma attached to obtaining handouts." Traveling to Erie, Pa., to report on proposed CETA cuts, Correspondent Robert Geline found residents ready...
DIED. James B. Longley, 56, maverick insurance millionaire who, in 1974, was elected Governor of Maine as an independent; of cancer; in Lewiston. Longley vowed to hold down state spending and not to seek a second term. He kept both promises, halving unemployment, funneling a $40 million state surplus into tax rebates and stepping down last year...
Born in the Maine fac tory town of Lewiston in 1877, he was the youngest of nine children of a poor English-born cotton spinner. His mother died when he was eight, and the family dispersed. His father remarried and moved to Cleveland, where Marsden eventually joined him. "I had a childhood vast with terror and surprise," he wrote later. Shy and insecure, he began to paint. He received a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, where he so impressed one trustee that she offered him a five-year stipend to study in New York. He took classes...
Church groups have also protested the film in Lewiston, Maine, and caused a run of the movie to be canceled in Laconia, N.H. A Valdosta, Ga., judge issued a restraining order preventing showing of the film, but later removed the order...
...Soviet troops has been settled. Protested one pro-SALT Senator: "The s.o.b. has sold us out for his own private purpose." Said another: "Whatever credibility Church had as chairman is gone." Back in Idaho, Church has been ridiculed by one of his traditional backers. Bill Hall, the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune's editorial page editor, wrote, "It's not a proud moment to have the Senate Foreign Relations chairman from Idaho trying to outdo every right-wing wacko in the Senate...