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...Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the Academy of Sciences has a larger-than-life rattlesnake jaw with fangs, which snaps shut at the push of a button, and an instant earthquake showing the heaving innards of the earth. Oregon's imaginative Museum of Science and Industry in Portland offers a "micro-zoo" that, by magnifying a drop of water 200 times, reveals the teeming life in it. "We want to make a simple scientific statement the student will understand," says Executive Director Loren McKinley. "We don't go in for pinball exhibits...
...that a coach could experiment in the preseason games and forget the score. But now there are all those eager faces in the stands, all those Monday-morning quarterbacks camped in front of all those TV sets. Two weeks ago, Harlan Svare took his Los Angeles Rams up to Portland, Ore., for a scrimmage with the Dallas Cowboys. In the second quarter, Svare decided to give Rookie Quarterback Bill Munson some practice, so he benched Terry Baker-who hails from Portland. Thirty thousand fans booed everything Munson did. The Portland Reporter even ran an editorial claiming that the Rams...
...merger would stitch together the 8,263-mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,682-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,546-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 965-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The result, including a few subsidiaries, would be a 26,564-mile system that would stretch from Chicago to Vancouver, B.C., and from Winnipeg to Galveston, rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Pennsylvania and Southern Pacific) in annual revenues, with its $775 million. The examiner, Robert H. Murphy, based his recommendation on the fact that the once powerful roads, though still making a profit, have suffered a "steady...
Strangers Beware. The expedition leader was Gene Savoy, a 37-year-old explorer from Portland, Ore. For five years, Savoy has been tramping the Peruvian Andes, turning up everything from three pre-Inca cities to a 100-ft.-wide pre-Inca highway. In 1963 he joined forces with Peruvian Explorer Antonio Santander Cascelli, 62, and together they started hunting for Vilcabamba. Old records seemed to point to a forbidding area northwest of Machu Picchu, called the Plain of the Spirits...
...Appeals Court in San Francisco ordered Judge William G. East in Portland to hear alleged Bank Robber Edward J. Dillon's claim that he had been sentenced to 18 years without benefit of a lawyer. Enthusiastically complying, last spring Judge East ordered crack Portland Lawyer Manley D. Strayer to represent Dillon, and the lawyer, toiling in Dillon's behalf, spent 108 hours of his usually high-priced time during a rehearing at which Dillon was resentenced. Federal rules being what they are, Strayer did not expect a penny...