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After receiving his degree in 1964, he stayed on as a research and teaching assistant, but one year later he was ready for yet a new challenge and moved back into the food business, managing a B&M Baked Beans plant in Portland, Maine...
...TALK BUT I HATE TO INTERRUPT GROUCHO. I SPOKE IN PUBLIC LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND WHEN I ASKED FOR A RAISE IN SALARY BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE HEARD ME. I MAKE A PRACTICE OF SPEAKING EVERY TIME CHICO MAKES A GRAND SLAM. SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR ANOTHER...
...frantic warning was radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnston, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey center in Vancouver, Wash...
...still stands. But his Ridiculously Small Boat celebrity vanished in only two weeks, when Bill Dunlop, 42, a former truck driver from Mechanic Falls, Me., bobbed into the harbor at Falmouth, England, in Wind's Will, a teapot just over 9 ft. long that he had sailed from Portland. The two became friends, but McClean was not having second best; he told Dunlop that he would chain-saw several inches from Giltspur and sail the Atlantic again...
Giltspur could diminish even further; its owner is only 5 ft. 6 in. tall, and he still has his chain saw. But Dickinson is not rushing to challenge the record. Dunlop, meanwhile, could not be bothered about such trifles. Three weeks ago, he left Portland, Me., to sail Wind's Will around the world. He said he would be back some time in 1986, although he would not say just when. "I might be a day or two late," said Dunlop. "I don't want anyone down on the dock waiting...