Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Lewis Neuberger, in a newsletter to his constituents this week: he was sorry that he could not present some rosebush slips to the President on behalf of the Portland Rose Festival, but the ceremony might tax the President's "definitely limited" strength. Mourned Neuberger: "We have a President who is not a well...
...against the town tough. Playing in the spotty Pacific Coast Conference, Oregon was a two-time loser in its last three games. And Ohio State's brawny Buckeyes, despite an opening-game upset by Texas Christian, were undefeated in the mighty Big Ten. From San Diego to Portland, bookies hefted the sheer weight of the Ohio State ground attack and made the visitors the favorites by as much as 24 points...
...Tired, Aging Men." Such steadfast Republicans as Senate Minority Leader William Knowland and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith defended the Eisenhower-Dulles report as "informative" and "positive," but from the Republican-Portland Oregonian came a bitter criticism of "the spectacle of two tired, aging men talking about the gravely compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning...
...PORTLAND OREGONIAN...
...inject it with drama, he had some 10,000 people in Portland, Ore., one of the U.S.'s 99 "critical targets," go through the motions of mass evacuation on the day "enemy" aircraft approached from the Aleutians, The Day Called X. Rasky's twelve-man technical crew, aided by publicity-eager federal Civil Defense experts and convoyed about the city by police motorcycle escort for three weeks, ably caught the mood of the day that began in an ordinary way. The cameras poked neatly around the well-stocked innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground...