Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their daughter was currently in Portland, Oregon, the mother explained. She had gone there Sept. 1 to work in a bookstore which was run by the mother of Brandeis Sociology Professor Neil T. Friedman, a young leftist professor who had been one of seven Brandeis faculty sponsors of the student strike information center...
...phone to Mrs. Saxe Friday afternoon, Professor Friedman told the woman his mother was in Philadelphia not Portland and she did not own a bookstore...
...Portland, Ore., police reported today that Susan Saxe had been positively identified as the same Susan Saxe who had purchased $500 worth of weapons from an Oregon gun store on September 15. They also said she was seen leaving her Portland apartment carrying a "heavy suitcase" on September 18 and had not been seen there since...
...Court judge goes, so goes his justice-even on a summer vacation. Last week two lawyers and a law clerk hiked six miles up a mountain trail in central Washington to where William O. Douglas was camping. They presented him with a petition requesting a temporary injunction against the Portland police. The iconoclastic judge told them to come back the next day, promising to leave his decision on a tree stump. Two of the petitioners, suffering from blisters and fatigue, failed to make the return trip. The third, locating the petition, found that he had indeed been stumped. Petition denied...
...policy seems to have spread the desired tranquillity. Spring fears of a "liquidity crisis" that might force other major corporations to follow the Penn Central into bankruptcy have subsided. Indeed, conditions have eased so much that two tiny banks-Canal National Bank of Portland, Me., and Citizens Bank of Jonesboro, Ark.-in the past two weeks have cut their "prime" loan rate (the minimum charge from which all other rates on business loans scale upward) from 8% to 7½%. Big-city banks are not yet ready to follow, but moneymen are increasingly hopeful that they will do so sometime...