Word: portland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herald, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Nashville Banner, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Times Herald. In the Midwest, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, Tulsa (Okla.) World, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the West, Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal. San Diego Union. Portland's Oregonian...
...cold didn't affect Robert's game, though, as she crunched Nancy Mooney of UMass, 6-0, 6-0, and finished the day with a surprising 6-2, 6-2, victory over Carrie Hickman, a strong player from the University of Maine, Portland, who upset the number eight seed earlier...
Unfortunately, this game isn't as easy as it seems. True, the Celtics are probably going to sign Wicks, who Red Auerbach recently heisted from the Portland Trailblazers via the New Orleans Jazz, but it seems like it's going to create a lot more problems than it solves...
...certainly not going to be Wicks, who, after he wrenched himself from the clutches of John Wooden at UCLA, went on to become one of the NBA's better known gunners. Wicks's pistol was loaded so often that it prompted a continuing feud with Geoff Petrie, Portland's other fine shooter--who has since been traded--and with the Trailblazers front office, as they have tried to trade Wicks for the last two seasons...
...virus-a form of which possibly caused some half-million deaths in the U.S. alone during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic-only a few health centers round the country were ready to give the shots. Indeed, federal distribution of the vaccine was so erratic that a health official in Portland, Ore., remarked: "We didn't even know we'd received a batch until we read about it in the newspaper...