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McCall as governor was a Jerry Brown figure: unpredictable, iconoclastic, controversial. Take the time a convention of American Legion stalwarts was coming to Portland, led by John Mitchell, and a group of counter culture organizers had called a People's Army Jamboree in reaction, inviting several thousand anti-legionaires to attend. A confrontation between the two groups seemed inevitable, so, in gubernatorial character, McCall called out the national guard and ordered a helicopter to be sent to the city for possible crowd dispersal. But unlike your average chief exec, McCall specified that the troops were not to carry guns...
Richard H. Petersen Portland...
...PORTLAND: Pilots complain that the Oregon airport does not provide satisfactory runway lighting for approaching planes...
Even so, the decision did little to bolster faith in science or Government. Wrote Lexie Harrington to the Portland Oregonian: "The scientists subject these animals to massive megadoses of the substance in question, which would kill an elephant, and then triumphantly -almost gleefully-announce that they have discovered cancer or other ailments developing in the test victims." Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr., an Indiana Democrat, sarcastically introduced a bill that would allow sales of saccharin-sweetened products under the label, "Warning: the Canadians have determined that saccharin is dangerous to your rats' health...
Sure the Knicks won the game, 108-104, but that is not the issue. The spread is, and as set by the neighborhood bookie, it favored the Knicks by five and one-half points. In other words, if you chose to bet on the Knicks' opponents, the Portland Trailblazers, you would win your bet if the Blazers either won the game or lost by less than five and one-half points...