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Environmentally progressive Oregon seems on the verge of solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
...often as they said women, and they sometimes said hero when they meant heroine. They were, in short, Republicans, not Democrats. But for all their modesty of style and rhetoric, they had unexpected influence. 'I'm a Democrat," said Betty Friedan, who was observing the proceedings for McCall's, "but the emergence of women at this convention may be more important than what the women did at the Democratic Convention...
button. Oregon's spoofing James G. Elaine Society* says of its own "Magnet" state: "You can always tell when it's summer in Oregon-the rain gets warm." Oregon Governor Tom McCall is even more hard-nosed. "The concept of earlier decades was population growth at all costs," says McCall. "Well, that cost is now proving too much to pay, and we want none of that in Oregon." McCall started to tell tourists two years ago, "Come visit us, but for heaven's sake don't come here to live." Now he adds, "Soon...
...Women's Lib rhetoric getting out of of hand? Yes, says the movement's founder Betty Friedan. In the August McCall's, she insists that "female chauvinist boors" are trying to "elevate women as a separate class" and that this "threatens backlash among women even more than men." Singling out Gloria Steinem for having referred to marriage as "prostitution," Ms. Friedan protests "the assumption that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her body for bread or a mink coat. Does this mean that...
...died in 1962 from an overdose of sleeping pills did the world learn just how seriously she wanted to be taken. Aside from her ambitions as an actress, she tried poetry, which interested Carl Sandburg enough for him to request copies of three short works. Published in the August McCall's, they mirror Marilyn's somber side. Samples...