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...trip north to Oregon, Frank Sinatra lent Muskie his private 12-seat Grumman jet. The pilot, in some confusion about the schedule, landed in Portland instead of Eugene, and taxied around vainly in search of a welcoming party. "It's hard to make a speech here," Muskie quipped to an aide. "There are no terminal facilities." Once put down properly in Eugene, he attended a party meeting where he argued with a Women's Lib group about abortion-he opposes it, favors disseminating more information about birth control instead...
OLIVER PACINI Portland...
...year-round islanders, and some of the 250 summer regulars, saw the imminent demise of the school leading to the end of their island. The nearest mainland classes, where island teen-agers already go, are a 90-minute ferry ride to Portland. "We couldn't put our young ones on the 6:15 morning ferry and ask them to make that trip," says Lobsterman Jim Seymour, father of two grade school kids...
With a year's grace granted by the Portland school committee, the tenacious lobstermen decided to try catching new children on the mainland for their school. O'Reilly's father-in-law found a family with six children willing to make the move. Trouble was, O'Reilly's father-in-law is head of the Portland welfare office, and the family he wanted to import was among his clients. In Maine, a lot of people still believe a man should always earn his own way. The islanders talked and debated and finally made a choice...
...secret" classification bothered some journalists. "We have serious doubts," said Publisher Robert C. Notson of the Portland Oregonian, "whether penetration of the confidential files of the Pentagon should be treated in this manner." The Oregonian subscribes to the New York Times News Service and was offered Neil Sheehan's three resume stories, but it held off more than a week before finally deciding to run them. "The classification would have bothered me a hell of a lot," admitted Chicago Sun-Times Editor James Hoge. "There would have been a lot of discussion. But in the end, like the Times...