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UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND...
...stand, the boys wheeled and dealt themselves in and out of restaurants, real estate and a bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland Hotel in Portland, Me., New England's third biggest hotel, to a $3,850,000 franchised Howard Johnson Motor Lodge now abuilding directly over the Massachusetts Turnpike...
...mood to give one last push for Gene. Kennedy enjoys support from the regular Democratic organization in Oregon, but that is puny by any reckoning in that anti-organization state. And some Oregonians remember that Bobby, as a Senate investigator in 1957, was instrumental in getting Portland's Mayor Terry Schrunk tried for bribery and perjury. Schrunk, who was acquitted, is still mayor. The party in California is traumatically split, and Kennedy's forces, headed by Jesse Unruh, the ambitious, abrasive speaker of the assembly, became bogged down in petty bickering to the extent that Kennedy agents from the outside...
...conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different stations. " Just by looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which penetrates...
...seven-state campaign swing from Indiana to California, Bobby-who has been depilating so steadily that he may soon look like a Marine boot-deliberately courted more mature audiences than the screaming bobby-hoppers that so often greet him. But age made little difference. Visiting an electronics plant near Portland, Ore., Kennedy encountered the same ecstatic squeals-from middle-aged women. Oddly enough, it was at the University of San Francisco, hard by the Haight-Ashbury, that Bobby encountered the most unbridled hostility of his campaign-from heckling hippies...