Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conigliaro had traveled to my hometown of Portland, Maine, on a day off to sign autographs as a publicity stunt for an automobile dealership. Every kid in town worth his Carl Yastrzemski baseball card showed up at the lot that day in order to get Tony C's signature...
...with the bizarre nature of the entire episode, the latest chapter involved a radical athletics director named John V. Scott who had once been employed by Oberlin College in Ohio, and-the strangest touch of all-Bill Walton, the talented, eccentric 6-ft. 11-in. basketball center of the Portland Trail Blazers...
When Walton met Scott and his wife, he was so attracted by the couple that last year he invited them to move into his $100,000 A-frame house outside Portland. Last week, after talking to the FBI, Walton said that his new guru had never mentioned any involvement with the S.L.A. Walton said that he had last seen Scott two or three weeks ago, when his friend had told him he was "going away for a while." Added the basketball star: "All I can go on is my personal experience, and I had some of the most beautiful experiences...
Kennerly made it to the White House on brashness, guts, high-speed hustle and talent. The son of a salesman, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Roseburg, Ore., and was briefly married in 1967. After quitting Portland State University to take pictures for the Oregon Journal, he went on, at the age of 20, to United Press International. UPI sent him to Saigon in 1971, and the next year, his photos showing the desolation of war won him a Pulitzer Prize...
This year's squad looks as powerful as any of its predecessors. With the exception of a loss to Portland (Ore.) State, O.S.U. is undefeated. In fact, three of State's ten starters-118 Ibs. to heavyweight-have yet to lose a match this year: Billy Martin, a cat-quick sophomore in the 126-lb. class; and two senior co-captains: gangling Steve Randall, wrestling at 142 Ibs.; and Ron Ray, a veteran of the 167-lb. division...