THE ADMINISTRATION: New Job for MrSc Lee

When Dorothy McCullough Lee took office seven years ago as Portland's first woman mayor, she brought to the office the same classically simple concept of her duties that had guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau.

Last week Mrs. Lee, 55, brought her straightforward philosophy of public service to the biggest...

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