Word: portlanders
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Princeton itself gained fifth-place in the Far West Tournament at Portland, Ore., taking a 77-66 decision over Stanford in is final game. Princeton has fallen from the national Top 10 ranking as a result of recent losses...
Precocious was the polite word for Portland Mason, only daughter of Actor James Mason and ex-Wife Pamela. The girl gave up smoking at the age of eight and almost won a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest at 12. Now 19, Portland has made her London acting debut in a revival of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, playing-of all things-a puritanical little prig. The critics thought she was splendid, and so did Papa James, who announced that henceforth "my ambition is to be known as Portland's father...
...except euphony. The commission, reversing its own antimerger order of 20 months ago, approved the creation of the Great Northern Pacific & Burlington Lines, Inc. The new road fuses the present Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy along with smaller subsidiaries, including the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and the Pacific Coast Railroad. With 24,600 miles of track stretching across more than a quarter of the nation, the G.N.P. & B. will be the U.S.'s longest railroad. Consolidated revenues of $850 million a year will rank it right behind the Pennsylvania and the Southern Pacific. With...
...Northerns." The Government feared that the G.N.P. & B. would hurt competitors, notably the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & North Western. Those two roads, which are also intent on merging, withdrew their opposition to the G.N.P. & B. after the Milwaukee was allowed access to such cities as Billings, Mont., and Portland, Ore. and to Canadian points that had all previously been terminals only of The Northerns. Railroad unions withdrew their opposition after the lines pledged to work off an excess of 4,511 employees by attrition. One complainant left, however, is the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, which may yet appeal...
...West Coast, California's Governor Ronald Reagan turned an invitation to the U.S.C.-Oregon State football game into an excuse for two days of non-campaigning in the Pacific Northwest. He showed up in Seattle for a G.O.P. fund-raising lunch, attended a party dinner in Portland that evening, rode horseback in the Veterans' Day Parade in Albany, Ore., the following day. Reagan, of course, still bills himself as a noncandidate, but his protestations of late have rung increasingly hollow...