Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Church efforts to encourage viewers to be more discriminating in their TV habits can have the same result as that of the action recommended by TV executives who defend today's programming. Says Thomas Dargan, manager of the ABC station in Portland, Ore., who has been barraged with complaints about Soap "There is excellent alternative programming available-including the off button." To commercial TV's complaints about religious censorship, Parker responds, "You have a perfect right to say you don't want this coming into your living room. It's a matter of the public interest...
...Cosmos were returning from the West Coast, where before an S.R.O. crowd of 35,548 in Portland, Ore., they had won the N.A.S.L. title by beating the Seattle Sounders, 2-1. The size of the crowd had been limited only by the capacity of the Portland stadium; millions watched on television in the U.S. and around the world. Reflecting the popularity of soccer outside the U.S., the game had been beamed to ten countries. Though only a few years ago, soccer attendance in the U.S. seldom exceeded a few thousand, during the just completed N.A.S.L. season, soccer fans flocked...
...Portland...
...refuse a man permission to try on its merchandise on the premises. Questions: Can anyone in the real world take such an issue seriously? Should the drive against sexist discrimination lead to the negation of all social differentiations between the sexes? No was the answer hinted at in Portland, Ore., by the civil rights division of the state labor department; the division informed a worried bar owner that, well, yes, he was within his rights in refusing to allow his transvestite patrons the privilege of using the ladies' room...
When McGinnis' ten-foot shot off the inbounds pass juggled about the rim and bounced off, Portland had the game and the world championship. The place went wild...