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Justly or not, the first wave of rage is usually directed at the airline for not doing more to prevent crashes. Says Sandy Clay, a survivor of the United crash at Portland, Ore., last December: "I wanted to blow up the airline. I tried to run over an executive of the company after they forced me to take sick leave and workmen's compensation." Some would like to get back to work, but feel they are treated like pariahs. Others are terrified about flying again, and shocked that employers ignore the effects of trauma and want them right back...
...week's end, Bush also demonstrated that he may be a better stump speaker than Baker. Both candidates showed up at a G.O.P. forum in Portland, Me., where Bush won so much support with a blood-stirring campaign speech that he narrowly upset Baker in a presidential straw vote. The Tennessean had been expected to win because he had the backing of the state's popular Republican Senator William Cohen. Baker cannot afford many more such defeats if he is to build the kind of national consensus that he has so skillfully crafted in the Senate...
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...Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year and a half ago. With the coming of hot weather in New Orleans, they decided to work their way west through fairs and markets and end up in Portland, where they have a cabin. When last glimpsed, they were living in their car, trying to raise money for a carburetor and tire...
...Mark Ptashne, 39. In 1967 the Harvard molecular biologist detected a molecule, called a "represser," that regulates the way a gene functions, possibly a key in the study of cancer. Ptashne was majoring in philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore., when he became fascinated by a theory about represser molecules and switched to chemistry in his senior year. During the Viet Nam War, Ptashne was deeply involved in antiwar politics at Harvard and went to the extent of lecturing at the University of Hanoi. But he became disillusioned with leftist politics in 1976 when some radicals and others tried...