Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting for our economic survival," says Jack Meier, chairman of Meier & Frank, the top department store in downtown Portland, Ore. His store's sales have dropped by one-third in the past twelve years and, like many other doyens of downtown, he argues that the central shopping districts will tumble into deeper trouble unless local governments provide more parking space and better mass transit. Adds Dexter Ware, a senior vice president of Detroit's Hudson Co.: "At some point, major cities must recognize that if they want to save the downtown stores, they will have to provide...
...mist of the city darkens. Alongside small factories, truckers back their vans up to the landing docks and the license plates on the front grilles form a road map of the route through Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and into the Northwest where the trucker will eventually deliver his widgets in Portland. "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," reads a dirty bumper sticker underneath...
More Alterations. Washington, D.C., merchandisers report a steady flow of "bring-backs," generally attributable to husbands whose passions, and fountain pens, run dry at the midi. Trial selections of mid-calf fashions sold so poorly that stores in Miami, Atlanta and Portland ordered only 10% of their fall stock in the longer lengths, are getting little help from customers in reducing even that small fraction. At a Los Angeles fundraising party for Governor Reagan this month, a cool three out of 450 lady guests turned up in midis; the rest brazened it out in long gowns or pants. Even...
Neil T. Friedman, Brandeis sociology professor, has been suspended from all teaching responsibilities, Brandeis announced late Monday night. Although Friedman was mentioned in the State Street Bank holdup as the man who Susan Saxe said had gotten her a bookstore job in Portland, the University said the charges were unconnected with the robbery. The letter of complaint was mailed to Friedman the day before the holdup. The complaint charged "gross negligence and malfeasance" involving a statement he made to students last spring urging them to throw dirt and mud on acting president Charles I. Scotland...
...Beverly Hills robbery reportedly involved the theft of $3400 from the Equitable Savings and Loan on September 14, one day before Susan Save purchased $500 worth of firearms in Portland...