Word: portland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ushers made it an even $10. The state headquarters of the Oregon Democratic Party sent a check for $1,000, and the Sisters of St. Mary telephoned to say that they had nothing to give but a prayer. It all seemed that sentimental last week when the Portland Reporter (TIME, March 6) struggled back to life after running its own obituary...
...past 30 years, some 20 U.S. dailies have been launched during newspaper strikes, and struggled to stay permanently in business. Almost without exception, such papers end along with the strike.* Despite such overwhelming odds, during a 1959 strike against both dailies in Portland, Ore., union staffers launched the Portland Reporter, a competitive paper of their own. Last week, the odds caught up with the Reporter. Only a few days after celebrating its fourth birthday, Oregon's strike-born daily went under...
Despite these advantages, the nursling's survival prospect was never very high. The 1959 strike failed to shut down the city's existing dailies, the Journal and the Oregonian, thus denying the newcomer the opportunity to exploit a temporary news vacuum. Moreover, Portland readers seemed undisposed to support a union paper that tried so hard to avoid the union label that it packed as much punch as a Sunday supplement. Although the Oregonian and the Journal have together lost 79,000 in circulation since the strike, the tabloid Reporter could not even attract all those defectors. At death...
...Less of a Menace." But then, back to the higgledy-piggledy. Goldwater, whose campaign to date has had all the zip of a snapped rubber band, left New Hampshire's sub-zero climate for a region he finds more hospitable, the Far West. In Portland, he was greeted by an airport crowd of 300 sporting cowboy hats with the AuH.s0 symbol and signs inscribed, OUT WEST WE LIKE BARRY BEST, and he drew 5,000 with a speech at the city's new Coliseum. Arriving in San Francisco, Goldwater told newsmen that the John Birch Soci...
...task was not to do original research, but to evaluate 8,000 studies, many mainly statistical, by other investigators from around the world. The job included a last-minute appraisal of the massive analysis presented by the American Cancer Society's E. Cuyler Hammond to the A.M.A. in Portland, Ore. (TIME, Dec. 13). At the end of 14 months' study, the committee found that...