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...marred walls to harassment by panhandlers. "A lot of us feel uncomfortable and threatened in those situations, and it's not just imagination," DuBow says. The sheer population mass of the largest cities, coupled with sensational news coverage of brutal crimes, contributes to the climate of fear. People in Portland feel safer than do inhabitants of Chicago, even though crime rates are higher in the . smaller city. Most Americans do not become crime victims, but most know someone who has. Many become quite rational prisoners of their fears, living behind triple locks and avoiding ominous places...
Other teams relocated in hopes of attracting more interest: 1984's Washington Federals are 1985's Orlando Renegades, while the New Orleans Breakers, who had just finished moving down from Boston, packed up again and are now playing in Portland, Ore. The Chicago Blitz is a paper franchise, having suspended play for this season and dealt out its squad like so many cards to other U.S.F.L. teams. While a few U.S.F.L. franchises are catching on, none of them are breaking even. Indeed, the L.A. Express played its opener last Sunday on welfare, so deep in the red that...
...earliest champions of American food and regional dishes, as well as of outdoor cooking, Beard acknowledged in his autobiographical cookbook, Delights and Prejudices, that a strong influence on his career was his English-born mother. She operated a hotel noted for its fine food in Portland, where Beard was born. There he developed a love and understanding of the best- quality seasonal ingredients prepared with infinite care, no matter how humble a dish might be. Beard had wide and eclectic preferences in foods, ranging from caviar to Cheerios, from elegant Madeira sauces to marshmallows, from French quenelles de brochet...
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, by Martin/Soderstrom/Matteson Architects, manages to be formal and dignified, and yet lively. It accommodates crowds but also yields intimate spaces with the help of different levels, a colonnade and a fountain to splash...
When FBI agents arrested an armed-robbery suspect after a shootout in a Portland, Ore., motel last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged...