Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 700 miles north, in Hillsboro, Ore., detectives were keeping "open minds" in their investigation into the death of Patricia Bennett, 31. A campus security officer at Portland Community College, Bennett died last week after swallowing one or more Anacin-3 capsules laced with cyanide. Her death was the first fatal poisoning linked to pain relievers since seven people in the Chicago area died between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Meanwhile, American Home Products is voluntarily withdrawing all Anacin-3 capsules not in tamper-resistant containers...
...McCall's greatest political challenges came when in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam anti-war movement and in the midst of McCall's re-election campaign, the American Legion scheduled a convention in Portland. In response, a group called the People's Army planned a massive protest in the streets of Portland...
...miles outside the city. More than 30,000 youths attended the concert, titled "Vortex I", for which the state provided bands, and eating and medical facilities. State police were ordered to be especially lenient to avoid confrontation. The festival took place without incident, as did the convention in Portland. What became known as "The governor's pot party" failed to harm McCall's bid for re-election...
Bernstein, who served as Chairman of the school board of Portland, Maine, added that she has "always had an interest in education, and in Harvard in particular...
...there he didn't want to go anywhere." Jobs lasted only a semester but hung around the campus wandering the labyrinths of postadolescent mysticism and post-Woodstock culture. He tried pre-philosophy, meditation, the I Ching, LSD and the excellent vegetarian curries at the Hare Krishna house in Portland. He swore off meat about this time and took up vegetarianism "in my typically nutso way." One temporary result, say friends, was skin tinted by an excess of carotene to the color of an early sunset...