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...once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream." Richard Nixon's personal dream is driving him from a $200,000-a-year New York law practice into what he referred to last week as "the snows of New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the roses of Portland, and what have you." How long the dream will give him any lift is now up to the voters...
...previous meeting in Cambridge on Tuesday, Bridwell apparently agreed that the joint development project should examine both Brookline-Elm and the Portland-Albany route on the edge of M.T. to decide which would be less harmful to the City. But the commissioner--probably under pressure from the DPW--now seems less enthusiastic about considering Portland-Albany, according to those present at the meeting...
...with their sexual hang-ups and his-and-her looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver, 44, has mounted the story of Viola and Duke Orsino, Olivia and Sebastian on a simple white set that swings with multimedia cinema effects and a hard-rock beat...
...polls and straw votes. The challenger is not a Republican, but former Democratic Representative Robert Duncan - the same man Morse spurned when Duncan ran for the Senate against Republican Mark Hatfield in 1966. Since his defeat (by 24,000 out of 685,000 votes), Duncan, a gregarious Portland lawyer, has never stopped running, pausing last month only long enough to celebrate his 47th birthday and to announce that he will oppose Morse in the May primary...
Ireland admits to feeling a "big emotional wrench" in leaving Alleghany, which he regards as a sort of "corporate Marine Corps." Son of a Portland, Me., chiropodist, Ireland himself was a genuine World War II hero in the Marines, which he joined after finishing Bowdoin. At 30, he joined the mercurial Robert Young at Alleghany as its $7,500-a-year secretary and counsel. Within three years, as Young and Partner Kirby immersed themselves in the long proxy battle that won them control of the Central from the Vanderbilt family, Ireland was running the store singlehanded...