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...McCall has long been among the Republican Party's most effective and innovative Governors-and one of its more painful embarrassments. In McCall's eight years in office, Oregon adopted one of the nation's first comprehensive land-use plans, banned nonreturnable beverage containers, placed its entire 300-mile shore line in state ownership to protect it from developers and publicly discouraged the influx of new residents and even tourists. It also summarily closed a polluting paper-pulp plant and forced other firms to comply with tough environmental standards...
...same time, McCall has infuriated fellow Republicans by openly feuding with party leaders, notably Ronald Reagan, endorsing euthanasia, stressing environmental protection over economic growth, making other highly unconventional pronouncements and failing to support some of his party's candidates for office. This year, barred by law from seeking a third term, McCall refused to endorse his party's conservative gubernatorial candidate and was not at all distressed when Oregonians elected Democrat Bob Straub...
Neon Sign. Now 61 and a man without a party, McCall will leave the statehouse on Jan. 13. His future is as misty as the Willamette Valley at dawn. He underwent two cancer operations in 1973, but still appears healthy and trim at 6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs. Last week McCall was being mentioned as a potential recruit for the Ford Administration. In addition, McCall has been offered a college presidency and a professorship in communications (he was a newspaper and television newsman for 25 years before being elected secretary of state in 1964). But the prospect he talks...
...terms of actual performance, Scalise singled out co-captain Jim Quinn, attackman Kevin McCall, midfielders Bruce Bruckman and Bob Frisbee, and defensemen A1 Senior and Mike Belmont as having been particularly impressive thus...
...autobiographical. Yet he has made clear that one of the problems was to keep the kids' dialogue from sounding like his own children, and he points out that some characters are drawn from colleagues during his years in advertising and promotion at Time Inc., Look and McCall's. "I guess I am a little like Slocum," he finally admits. "I suffer from a fundamental lack of confidence. I don't like speed or excitement. I won't go 65 miles an hour because I worry about a tire going flat. When I go swimming, the surf...