Word: portland
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...prints by twelve photographers, all of them affiliated with photo agencies that distribute their work to magazines and newspapers. "On the Line: The New Color Photojournalism" originated earlier this year at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. This week it will complete a stop at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Me. From there it will travel over the next two years to Chapel Hill, N.C., Lawrence, Kans., Austin, Pittsburgh, Aspen, Colo., and Toledo. Adam D. Weinberg, who organized the exhibit, describes these pictures as "on the line" between art and journalism. He tends to draw the line...
Companies that decide to live with AIDS have generally succeeded in defusing the worries of other employees by educating them on the difficulty of being infected by the disease on the job. When two workers at the daily Portland Oregonian came down with AIDS last spring, Personnel Director Frank Lesage called small meetings among 350 company employees to discuss the issue and handed out literature on the disease. Says Lesage: "They were not happy with the news, but they were glad we were up front about our policy...
Only last year Penny Harrington of Portland, Ore., earned a mention in history, when she capped 22 years in law enforcement by being named the first female chief of a major police force in the U.S. Last week she resigned as head of the Portland police bureau, after an investigating commission called for her ouster, charging that "defects of leadership" had irretrievably cost her the confidence of her 760-member command...
...management style, as well as her insensitivity to the atmosphere of nepotism created by the fact that her brother-in-law and sister held bureau jobs, as did her husband, Officer Bruce Gary Harrington. The commission questioned the friendliness the chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings, was almost certainly made more vulnerable by the mayor's own troubles: Clark is the target of a recall effort...
...Episcopal was not to be that lucky. Just before the search was called off Thursday, an Air Force sergeant happened onto a backpack at the 8,300-ft. level. There searchers located the remaining climbers, by then buried three days under deep snow. They swiftly airlifted all eight to Portland hospitals. Doctors revived two students. The six others were dead. The tragedy was Mount Hood's worst...