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...Court judge goes, so goes his justice-even on a summer vacation. Last week two lawyers and a law clerk hiked six miles up a mountain trail in central Washington to where William O. Douglas was camping. They presented him with a petition requesting a temporary injunction against the Portland police. The iconoclastic judge told them to come back the next day, promising to leave his decision on a tree stump. Two of the petitioners, suffering from blisters and fatigue, failed to make the return trip. The third, locating the petition, found that he had indeed been stumped. Petition denied...
Fifteen-Minute Portrait. Porter was born in 1792, while Washington was still in office. He grew up in Maine, went to school for six months when he was twelve, and then turned his back on his family's prosperous farm. In 1807 he set out for Portland carrying a fife and a fiddle. Within eight years he was making money as a traveling musician, a teacher, a sign and house painter, a soldier, a builder. With typical Yankee ingenuity, Porter tried each occupation from as many angles as possible. Once he mastered a skill, he proceeded immediately to teach...
...Porter married a Portland girl named Eunice Twombly. Family life was not for him, and he soon took to the road again, bound for New Haven. If Eunice objected, she never made an issue of it. He went home to Portland periodically over the years-often enough, at least, to produce ten children in 18 years...
...David E. Callison, 46, a Portland, Ore., cop for 22 years, has spent hours nose-to-nose with campus protesters and watched many a truncheon thudding against student skulls. So one day last spring Callison was both alarmed and relieved to learn that his 22-year-old daughter Liz, a senior at the University of Oregon, had just survived her first sit-in demonstration unscathed and spent a night in jail for trespass. "All we wanted was a chance to talk to the president of the university," she said. "We waited peacefully for 36 hours. When the police came...
...sense they are, and in the case of the Callisons, the father has just as much to teach as the child. A rare cop, Callison attended the University of Portland for three years before dropping out in order to support his family by pounding a beat. As president of the 655-member Portland police union, he knows precisely how to use power to effect change. In a recent display of leadership, he coaxed and pressured Portland officials into giving the cops higher pay and better working conditions. At any moment, a word from him would have triggered a police strike...