Word: ores
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...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has elected the following members of the Class of 1974: Jane E. Asch of Quincy House and New York City; Margaret H. Barton of Leverett House and Lexington; Judith G. Bierman of Currier House and Portland, Ore.; and Caroline L. Birdsall of Currier House and Waterford, Conn...
Portland, Ore...
PORTLAND, ORE.: President Nixon still has a few loyalists in this city (pop. 390,000), such as President John Howard, 51, of Lewis and Clark College, who says of the press and Congress: "They are like sharks. When they smell blood, they go mad." Another is J. Richard Nokes, 58, managing editor of the Oregonian, who declares: "A lynch-mob atmosphere has developed in the Washington press corps and in Congress. Now it has spread through the country." But majority sentiment in Portland is illustrated by the fact that Nokes' own newspaper receives 40 times as many anti-Nixon...
...darkness falls, the skyline of Portland, Ore., takes on an eerie cast, as if the city of 390,000 were deserted. Along the downtown streets, the familiar glow of neon signs is missing. Against the horizon, the 30-story Georgia-Pacific Building and 40-story First National Bank Tower loom like abandoned hulks, their silhouettes illuminated only by a meager handful of office lights and the winking red beacons that warn aircraft that the buildings still stand...
...seem to some to be a dangerously suggestive circulation-promotion gimmick, Forbes magazine President Malcolm Forbes, 54, has taken to the skies in a hot-air balloon. Determined to become the first person to cross the U.S. in a hot-air craft, Forbes took off from Coos Bay, Ore., on Oct. 4. Last week he set down on a farm near Esbon, Kans., the geographical center of the country, which he figures to be about 20 ballooning days from the New Jersey coast. Aeronaut Forbes is not drifting East on a wing and a prayer, however. His entourage includes...