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Harvard freshman Gregory Estey will be competing in the Junior Men's National Figure Skating Championship in Portland, Oregon this February...
...Boston Celtics, who were in first place at this writing more than two years ago, have to play the New York Nets tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. But on Sunday afternoon the Celts will really have their hands full when they play the World Champion Portland Trailblazers...
...first 150 million ministamps, featuring an 1877 Indianhead penny against a tan background, will go on sale Jan. 11 in Kansas City, Mo. Next day, post offices in Hartford, Memphis, Portland, Ore., and Richmond, will begin selling them...
...Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United Way fund drive not only met but exceeded its goal for the first time in a decade. Said Drive Director Howard Studd: "We're really a good barometer of psychological attitudes. People are feeling relaxed and confident about the future. We're coming off a couple...
...Americans worry about urban blight, street crime, racial trouble, chronic unemployment. But not the Northwest. Its economy, based on the renewable resources of forests and farms, is expanding strongly. Its biggest manufacturer, Boeing, has a $5 billion backlog of orders. Its two major cities?Seattle (pop. 496,000) and Portland (377,000)?are bustling, clean and eminently livable. There are too few blacks for any real racial problems, and the small Indian minority?.8% of the population?is fighting in the courts, not the streets, for such goals as regaining water rights and tribal lands. In the Northwest...