Word: portlanders
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...possession of the Congregation of the Holy Cross,* founded in France in 1837. In size (world membership: 3,300) and wealth, the order does not compare with the 422-year-old Jesuits (34,700 members), who control 28 U.S. campuses. C.S.C. has only five: Notre Dame, Oregon's Portland University, Massachusetts' Stonehill College, Pennsylvania's King's College and Texas' St. Edward's College. But in Notre Dame, C.S.C. has what is generally acknowledged as the most rapidly improving Catholic campus...
Biggest of the .new dailies was founded in Portland, Ore., where striking newsmen from the city's two papers started the Reporter, enlisted relatives to sell subscriptions to sympathetic union families, now claim a circulation of 52,734. But the Reporter has been having its troubles, despite generous help from the International Typographical Union, which supplied cut-rate equipment, and now ladles out weekly "strike" payments of as much as $77.10 to editorial hands...
...straighten out management problems, at times has found itself running an insurance company, a machinery maker, a food processor, a coal-mining firm, and a molasses company. To settle the estate of one wealthy New York lawyer, the bank merged three small cement companies he controlled, formed General Portland Cement Co., which in 13 years has jumped from $15 million in sales to $59 million...
...third son of the aviator, and Susan Miller Lindbergh, 22: their first child, a daughter (whose arrival was so shrouded in secrecy -a family habit since the 1932 kidnaping of baby Charles Jr.-that early newspaper reports named her father as Land's older brother Jon) ; in Portland...