Word: portlanders
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...earliest champions of American food and regional dishes, as well as of outdoor cooking, Beard acknowledged in his autobiographical cookbook, Delights and Prejudices, that a strong influence on his career was his English-born mother. She operated a hotel noted for its fine food in Portland, where Beard was born. There he developed a love and understanding of the best- quality seasonal ingredients prepared with infinite care, no matter how humble a dish might be. Beard had wide and eclectic preferences in foods, ranging from caviar to Cheerios, from elegant Madeira sauces to marshmallows, from French quenelles de brochet...
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, by Martin/Soderstrom/Matteson Architects, manages to be formal and dignified, and yet lively. It accommodates crowds but also yields intimate spaces with the help of different levels, a colonnade and a fountain to splash...
When FBI agents arrested an armed-robbery suspect after a shootout in a Portland, Ore., motel last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged...
...area around the Korean truce village of Panmunjom has been a haven from gunfire, if not from violence, since the 1953 Korean armistice. But that record was shattered last week by a shootout over a Soviet defector in the Joint Security Area. An American G.I., Michael Burgoyne, 20, of Portland, Mich., was wounded in the melee. A South Korean soldier and as many as three North Koreans were killed...
...audience at the Bridger Elementary School in Portland, Ore., is even tougher when a friendly man in a nice suit latches on to a little boy and growls, "I gotcha!" The roomful of first-graders turns thumbs down, but not on the villain. They think the boy has made himself too easy a mark. He gets higher grades in a rerun by standing back and shouting, "Let me alone!" as the man, played by Teacher Jon Merritt, tries to lure him into a make-believe...