Word: portlanders
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...down, in what looks like a totally forbidding, colorless world, life, incredibly, is returning. Deer tracks have been spotted on otherwise barren slopes; new growths of ferns and skunk cabbage are poking through the ash. Tree sprouts are "coming up beautifully," says John Allen, 72, geology professor emeritus at Portland State University...
After the local newspaper published a story about Goiri in July, the cow-magnet craze struck Oregon, Idaho and Washington like gold fever. In ten days, Stocklin Supply near Portland, one of the largest animal health stores in the Northwest, sold 35,000 of the devices. It usually sells 15,000 to 20,000 a year. Goiri now has a patented kit called Magnetic Fuel Savers, which contains two plastic-coated magnets, clamps for fastening them to the fuel line, and directions for the rumble-fingered. Price: $16 to $19.90. Goiri has been contacted by some automotive-parts distributors...
N.U.C. students register in one of the consortium's cooperating local colleges. The TV programs are beamed from Maryland to local stations or cable systems serving Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, New York City, Pullman, Wash., State College, Pa., Moscow, Idaho, as well as Maryland, Oregon and Vermont. TV-viewing students will get credits and degrees from the college nearest them; those enrollees not served by a local college have to register with the extension division of the University of Maryland...
When local Reagan organizers asked her in 1968 to help with the California Governor's campaign, she offered to recruit volunteers in Portland's Multnomah County. She was on her phone so much, running up monthly $200 phone bills, that her banker husband bought her a shoulder resting device and an extra long cord so that she could cook while she talked. Says she: "My children never went hungry. Of course, I left a lot of notes for them when they came home saying, 'Here's your lunch.' " Her reward: Reagan won a respectable...
...credit for this remarkable turnabout belongs to Transportation Secretary Goldschmidt. Carter's first Transportation Secretary, Brock Adams, sternly ordered Detroit to "reinvent" the automobile, and last April the President publicly berated industry leaders for stubbornly refusing to make small cars. But Goldschmidt, the former mayor of Portland, Ore., took the automakers' problems seriously and helped swing Administration opinion round. Prompted by the Government's loan guarantee to Chrysler, Goldschmidt embarked on a long-term study that convinced him the Government simply must help an industry that provides one-sixth of the nation's jobs. A Goldschmidt...