Word: portlanders
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...Portland 107. Los Angeles...
...story directly to the jury. To bolster his side's credibility, his lawyers will call on Mailer and Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and Lyndon Johnson confidante. Mailer, who has known Stratton for more than 15 years and jointly owns a house in Maine with him, was in Portland last week and ready to testify. "Dick is a person of much integrity and courage," he says. No matter how many points character witnesses score for Stratton, the defense must counter the evidence that he was a participant. Explains Yale Law Professor Burke Marshall: "The question...
...nothing else, the arrest has given Stratton plenty of time to perfect his craft. Unable to come up with bail of $500,000, he has been in jail in Portland since September busily at work on his first novel, Drug War. The initial 300 pages of the manuscript have been ferried to a New York City literary agent by Mailer, who has been down this road before. Two years ago, Mailer was promoting and urging the parole of a prison author named Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast), who won release but later killed a Manhattan waiter...
...remarkable manager as well. He has a knack for getting the most out of people, for making them do more than they think they can. Says St. Louis Plant Manager John Burkart: "All of us at Chrysler believe in the man. I worship the guy." Vince Williams, a Portland, Ore., auto salesman, says he decided to open a Dodge dealership rather than a Pontiac outlet just because of lacocca...
America's leading calligraphers have urged that their countrymen instruct children in this writing technique. Many italic handwriting manuals are now available. One that is especially designed for use in elementary schools is the Italic Handwriting Series of textbooks by Barbara M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay of Portland, Ore., both teachers as well as enthusiastic calligraphers. Published by Portland State University, the eight-book series was adopted last month by the Portland school board as the official text for handwriting instruction from kindergarten through eighth grade. State education officials have approved the discretionary use of the Getty/ Dubay...