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Portland / Observer May 6, 1971 Editor of Now York Timo* Education by brain commencement spotlkor rocordi ng at University of Portland H arrison Salisbury, assistant managing editor of the New York Tim es, w ill be the Uni versity of Portland's 1971 Commencement speaker at exercises May 9th at the C ivic Auditorium . A Times staffer s.nce 1949, Salisbury was Moscow co r respondent fo r 5 years. His reporting from Russia won the P u litze r P rize In 1955. In e a rly 1967, he scored an impressive news exclusive as the only U.S. reporter allowed Into Hanoi. His stories from Vietnam and the Chinese per- lfery won him the Gorge Polk M em orial Award from Long Island U niversity and the Asia Award from the Overseas Press Club. Salisbury has authored nu merous books, most notable a perceptive h is to ry * 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad * and "B ehind the Lines - Hano/T He w ill receive an honorary D octtr of Laws degree at the ceremonies, o th e r honorary degree recipients w ill Include author Saunders Redding; fin ancial columnist,Sylvia P o rt e r, and Most Reverend M ark Hurley, Bishop of Santa Rosa. Saunders Redding Is a Black author whose best known books a re v N o Lay of Trium ph*, a highly autobiographical re port on Negro life In the South, and * On Being a Negro in A m e rica '; a short exercise in self analysis. Now a professor of American Studies and Hu mane Letters at Cornell Uni versity, Redding Is also a spe cial consultant fo r the Nation al Endowment fo r the Human itie s. He w ill receive an hon orary Doctor of Laws degree. Bishop M ark Hurley of Santa Rosa, C alifornia, w ill be speaker at Baccalaureate Mass, 10:30 AM, Sunday, In Howard Hall on the campus. He w ill receive an honory Doct<r of Laws degree. "W e ’ ll be educating by re cording information d ire c tly on the b ra in " by the year 2000- if man survives that long. D r. Julio Bortolazzo declared in a prediction - packed review of world events and trends. Bortolazzo, a form er Portland educator now noted fo r his career as a college pre sident, was a speaker at P o rt land Community College, ap pearing In theCollege Center fo r a mixed group of staff and students. Among other predictions, Bortolazzo foresaw: • A rtific ia l increases in in telligence, • Human communication with other Intelligent races on other planets, • D ifferentiation in skills achieved by drug therapy, • Genetic manipulation to control evolution and avoid birth defects, • Growing new organs and lim bs to replace Injured or de fective ones, • Delay and control of the aging process by drugs, diet and chemicals, • A human life span of 120 every one of thesedevelopments was already in sight, basing his predicitons on work of the pres tigious Hudson Institute " think tank" and s im ila r "pow erful gatherings of insightful and knowledgeable m en" working together to "p la n the future lo r all of u s" "'Ih e se things may sound fa r fetched," Bartolozzo said " B u t remember that the fir s t ap pendectomy w r Derformed in this country only In I885---- and now heart valve and even whole- heart transplants are com m on." The only snag, he cautioned, is that these same scientists give mankind only about one chance in two of surviving until the year 2000, because of the threat cf atomic weapons and the possibilities of a nuclear accident. years or more, through control of most lethal diseases and the aging process itself, • Bodily modifications on re quest, such as conversion for liquid breathing o r even a racial change. Bortolazzo stressed chat < K elly’s MOBIL SERVICE 2 6 4 3 N.E. 7th 2 8 2 -2 8 5 8 Auto Repair Perfect for parties, picnics, lunch or dinner ALL OWNED AND MANAGED BY 5 P d Z 31 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU See Veliow Pages 1.400 CHRO M E towel bars S N Irt BUIIDIBS WABTIB' OC • • wd» Io JA- .» g JJ 9 J |O J4 9 Î 3 • 4 In ng 4 ’ • 13 vM ’ »• p. i*»t‘ OH O» S0% AHWVWW//« il o’’ Sw« G’«° T LOW AS S0< M. C LO A « FENCING A t lo»f y *o r* M IS . 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Whatever, Howfcll warns "com e to the play prepared to have your senses a aulted, your sensibilities offended and your good taste outraged. But, above a il, come prepared to laugh." M ajor roles in the French language production w ill be portrayed by David Streight, Drayton N uttall, Shirley Lund berg, Penny Allen, Barbara Yeomans, Bernard Leopold, Claudine F isher, R ichard’ llt- shire, Judy Zupo and John Osborn. To add to the satire on tra d i tional theater, fo r the fir s t tune in its perform ing history, Les Planches has designed a " s tra ig h t" set. Designet is T im i T a im i. Period costumes have been de signed by P a rb a n M allison. Les Planches du Pacifique, the only French theater on the West Coast, is one of the nations leading French - language theater troupes as well as the only American member of the International Union of ( ni- v e rs ir/ Theaters. Admission is $1 fo r students and $2 fo r the general public. 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