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...Washington has 11.1%. By the middle of last month, 19,000 of the region's 102,000 sawmill employees had been laid off, while another 41,000 were working curtailed shifts. "It's like Chinese water torture," says John Hampton, chairman of Hampton Affiliates, a Portland-based logging company. "There's been no relief." Two weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service in Portland announced that it would have between 800 and 1,000 new job openings over the next three years; 18,642 applications flooded...
...Portland Trailblazers 123, Boston Celtics...
Harvard, for the young student, was another in a series of social challenges. Reed's father, an affluent merchant in Portland, Oregon, desired the highest in social prestige for his children and Harvard was the logical means to that end. Earlier, however, came Morristown, a fashionable prep school in New Jersey, where Jack devoted himself to athletics, charming the local girls and leading troops in a number of surreptitious raids into the nearby town. He also wrote, contributing short stories regularly to the school's literary magazine, and editing a humor magazine he published with his father's funds. Academics...
...rarely serious. Too much was written seriously, without revision or even serious editing. Yet, largely for his contributions to these publications, Reed's name became a familiar one to the undergraduate community. Achieving the position of Ibis on the Lampoon, Jack could boast to his mother in Portland that his name appeared more often in the Harvard student index than any other...
Punter--Rich Bayless, Dartmouth, 5-11, 175, Sophomore, Portland...