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...term, is an odds-on bet to try for the Senate. Private polls show him running slightly ahead of Mrs. Solomon. But Oregon Democrats are not a one-woman organization, and their candidate against Hatfield will most likely be six-term Congresswoman Edith Green, 55. A poll by the Portland Oregonian gave her a slight lead over Hatfield...
...Technically, Perry is not the first. James Augustine Healy, bishop of Portland, Me., from 1875 to 1900, was the son of a white Georgia planter and a mulatto slave, once joked about his color by suggesting that a small girl who called him "black as the devil" should rephrase it "black as the ace of spades...
Going into last week's Portland (Ore.) Open, Nicklaus had played in 16 official tournaments, had won four including the Masters, finished among the top five in eight others. He won again at Portland, with a 72-hole total of 273, which put him 15 under par and three strokes ahead of Dave Marr. The $6,600 top money boosted his season's winnings to $134,045, a new alltime record. That makes $409,238 for Jack in four years on the tour-only a season or so away from Palmer's $600,000-plus, total...
Balanced Giants. The system-no name for it has yet been picked-would link 20 states and two Canadian provinces from Portland, Me., to Omaha, from Montreal to Winston-Salem, N.C., over 26,460 miles of track; it would boast annual revenues of $1.822 billion a year. The new road would be a shade larger than the pending New York Central-Pennsylvania combine (23,271 track miles, $1.806 billion-a-year revenues) but would have slightly less in total assets ($5.9 billion v. the Pennsy Central's $6 billion...
...annual General Assembly in Portland recently, the tiny (12,500 members), fundamentalist Orthodox Presbyterian Church formally extended a hand of welcome to any who would like to leave the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. The same gesture was made by the equally small Bible Presbyterian Church, headed by Radio Preacher Carl Mclntire. Both churches clearly hope to swell their ranks with conservative Presbyterians dismayed by the "Confession of 1967," approved in principle at the United Presbyterian General Assembly last May (TIME, June...