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...that man who just rushed out of here?" cried Kennedy. Then, gibing at Carter's recent practice of campaigning from the White House with scores of personal phone calls, Kennedy added: "He had to rush off to read a critical national defense document-the Portland, Maine, telephone directory...
Though they have covered many odd, speculative spots in the universe, most of Ursula Le Guin's 19 books were conceived and written in one place: an 80-year-old four-story frame house perched on the west bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. The rooms are large, the furniture casual, obviously lived-and lounged-in by the three Le Guin children, who grew up there: Elisabeth, 22, Caroline, 20, and Theodore, 15. An occasional antique betrays an interest in the past; Charles Le Guin, Ursula's husband of 26 years, teaches history at Portland State...
...limits except those of imagination." That is certainly not true of science in the real world, as Le Guin was reminded last month when the Public Broadcasting Service carried a TV adaptation of her novel The Lathe of Heaven. A winter storm knocked out the power in much of Portland, leaving many of her local friends and fans with blank screens...
Desaulniers took up squash at 12, learning the basics from his father, a prominent squash figure in his own right. He travelled up and down the West coast from his Vancouver home, skipping among the squash hotbeds of Seattle, Portland and Victoria to compete on the junior circuit. His family settled in Montreal when Desaulniers was 16 and remains there...
Milwaukee 89, Portland...