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...sophomore at a small alternative college in Oregon, Larry was tall, bearded, and thin. Like a more famous Oregonian, Bill Walton, he often wore a wool cap, flannel shirt, and blue jeans--lumberjack garb. Nineteen-year old Larry had just had his draft physical the week before...
Even so, the decision did little to bolster faith in science or Government. Wrote Lexie Harrington to the Portland Oregonian: "The scientists subject these animals to massive megadoses of the substance in question, which would kill an elephant, and then triumphantly -almost gleefully-announce that they have discovered cancer or other ailments developing in the test victims." Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr., an Indiana Democrat, sarcastically introduced a bill that would allow sales of saccharin-sweetened products under the label, "Warning: the Canadians have determined that saccharin is dangerous to your rats' health...
...Appeal, Nashville Banner, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Times Herald. In the Midwest, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, Tulsa (Okla.) World, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the West, Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal. San Diego Union. Portland's Oregonian...
Dolores J. Katz, medical reporter for the Detroit Free Press; Alfred S. Larkin Jr., assistant metropolitan editor for The Boston Globe; John E. Painter Jr., staff writer for The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.; Barbara A. Reynolds, urban affairs writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Paul Solman, associate editor and reporter for The Real Paper have also been chosen...
That October, Thomas's roommate, an Oregonian named R. Mark Molton '75, asked Thomas to outline the Mormon church. "We called it quits at 5 the next morning," Thomas recalls with a smile. By next March--when Molton converted--Thomas's pedagogical role had "clarified" his own thoughts and doubts. That summer he decided to take up a mission--a two-year period of proselytizing inside or outside the United States--joining a predominantly male group of 18,000 Mormons. (Eleven Harvard undergraduates are out on missions this year.) These years of "dealing consistently with your feelings and with others...