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...Jaycees. Richard Bell is a Georgia Tech alumni trustee and a member of the Atlanta leadership group that has helped steer that city to its current state of excellence. Hallie Wiggins, who runs the office for her husband's sewer and water facilities construction business in Portland, Ore., works with the Y.W.C.A. and the women's prison council, which won a battle for separate women's prison facilities in the state. And Charles Wolf of Mount Wolf, Pa., a partner in a firm manufacturing corrugated paper, heads the board of York College, helps with the United...
Precisely this protean quality, however, causes many businessmen to take a wait-and-see position. Says Philip Bogue, president of the Portland (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce and a Republican: "I think there is a more positive attitude here that businessmen could live with a Democrat in the White House-assuming Carter clarifies some of his positions...
Dolores J. Katz, medical reporter for the Detroit Free Press; Alfred S. Larkin Jr., assistant metropolitan editor for The Boston Globe; John E. Painter Jr., staff writer for The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.; Barbara A. Reynolds, urban affairs writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Paul Solman, associate editor and reporter for The Real Paper have also been chosen...
...firmer stance was adopted by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church meeting in Portland, Ore., last month. Strong support for a conservative position resulted in a refusal to fund a broad study on sexuality and a toughening of an official 1972 Methodist position on homosexuality. The statement that the church did "not recommend" marriage between people of the same sex was changed to "not recognize...