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Richard di Franco, 36, was shaving before going to work in his Portland, Me., restaurant. Standing in the doorway, Ferdinand, his large three-year-old St. Bernard, looked on. Di Franco leaned down to pat the dog's head. Without warning, the animal leaped forward and Di Franco felt his face gripped between Ferdinand's powerful, crushing jaws as his pet tore a long gash in his right cheek that took scores of stitches to repair...
...were run the same way Congress is, the country would be shut down," says Colorado's freshman Representative. A Democrat, she is the first woman to be sent to Congress from her state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
...first production, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, featured Cornell as the consumptive Elizabeth Barrett. In 1933 Cornell took the company on a landmark 21,000-mile road trip through the U.S., bringing The Barretts, Shaw's Candida and Romeo and Juliet to such places as Amarillo, Texas, and Portland, Me. Cornell's fine eye for casting led her to offer early breaks to such talents as Gregory Peck and Orson Welles. She continued her throaty-voiced performances until 1961, when McClintic died and she retired. "I couldn't do anything after that," she said. "He always gave...
Since the end of controls, new union contracts have been providing some startling raises, especially in the often pace-setting construction industry. Two weeks ago, San Francisco plumbers and pipefitters won a one-year raise of nearly 18%. Welders and other metal craftsmen in Portland, Ore., signed a contract that will raise their hourly rate a minimum of 38% by October 1976. Delta Air Lines pilots recently won a 25% to 30% raise over 26 months...
...many blacks up the job escalator into the middle class in half the usual time. "A new breed of cat was produced, the black technocrat," says Robert Coard, director of an antipoverty agency in Boston. William Fuller, who earned $8,100 a year as a grade-school teacher in Portland, Ore., illustrates how fast a black technocrat can ascend. Between 1967 and 1969 he advanced from a planner for a Model Cities program to executive secretary of the State Intergroup Human Relations Commission (salary: $15,500 a year) to state director of compensatory education ($22,500). Today he is paid...