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...McCall probably first earned his national reputation as an environmentalist, not a prankster. During his eight years in office, moderate Oregon banned throwaway bottles and flip-top cans, liberalized its abortion and contraception laws, and began a policy prohibiting development of the state's 300-mile coastline. McCall--and many other Oregonians--wanted to save the state from the anarchistic growth that California and other states had experienced in the preceeding years. The state tightened up environmental regulations--so much that some heavily-polluting factories had to be closed--and discouraged all but clean industries from settling there...
Most likely you haven't heard much about Tom McCall lately. Since leaving office as Oregon's governor in 1974 he hasn't been drawing the national attention he did back then, when some were betting on him for a national candidacy in 1976. But there's no doubt he's been speaking with undiminished irreverence in the intervening years...
...have been McCall's own wry tongue that knocked him out of the running. Back in 1974, the Republican was in line to chair the upcoming National Governor's Conference. (Jimmy Carter used his spot as chairman of the Democratic Governor's conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could...
...McCall as governor was a Jerry Brown figure: unpredictable, iconoclastic, controversial. Take the time a convention of American Legion stalwarts was coming to Portland, led by John Mitchell, and a group of counter culture organizers had called a People's Army Jamboree in reaction, inviting several thousand anti-legionaires to attend. A confrontation between the two groups seemed inevitable, so, in gubernatorial character, McCall called out the national guard and ordered a helicopter to be sent to the city for possible crowd dispersal. But unlike your average chief exec, McCall specified that the troops were not to carry guns...
While there were only seven seniors on the Crimson's 1976 squad, they made a great contribution. Gone are attackman Billy Tennis, who scored 63 points to lead the team last year, midfielder Kevin McCall (29-5-34), who garnered a spot on the second All-Ivy team and shared the team's Most Valuable Player award with Tennis, and second team All-Ivy defenseman Mike Belmont. Three regular midfielders--Bruce Bruckman, Andy Gellis, and Giles Whalen--also picked up diplomas last June...