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Corey's relationships had indeed been good. While doing his part in trying to cope with grain surpluses as head of the Agriculture Department's Commodity Stabilization Service in Portland, Ore., he was also storing the stuff as a silent partner in a commercial grain warehouse...
...Portland...
...population was 5,000; today it exceeds 15,000, and the sociable birds have been spotted in every state along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. One wanderer, apparently lost, flew aboard a ship 200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland; another was shot by a farmer near Portland, Me. who complained it was upsetting his chickens. In the mud-and-mangroves Everglades National Park, where there are no cattle, the wily egrets trail tourists' cars, trapping insects stirred up by the moving tires...
...sweet, incisive, brilliant tone of the harpsichord (its metal strings are plucked by leather plectra or picks, instead of being struck by hammers), they find its sound mystically satisfying. West Coast Psychologist Bob Johnson, 39, heard his first harpsichord on a recording by Yella Pessl, found, while living in Portland, that he felt "sad and in limbo because there was no harpsichord in 1,000 miles." He bought two, now holds frequent meetings for fellow harpsichordists at evening sessions in his home...
...Carolyn Wood, a 14-year-old high school freshman from Portland, Ore. and the brightest new star to emerge from the trials. After taking an unexpected second in the 100 -meter freestyle behind Chris von Saltza, Carolyn bobbed up and down in the water like a surprised seal: "I made it! I made it! I made it!" By the next night, Carolyn was a poised veteran as she came back to win the 100-meter butterfly...