Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with the strike.* Despite such overwhelming odds, during a 1959 strike against both dailies in Portland, Ore., union staffers launched the Portland Reporter, a competitive paper of their own. Last week, the odds caught up with the Reporter. Only a few days after celebrating its fourth birthday, Oregon's strike-born daily went under...
...week after he had come out of nowhere to win a bronze medal in the special slalom at the Winter Olympics, the young Californian won the Kandahar special slalom, placed second in the giant slalom, easily beat France's Leo Lacroix for the combined title. Another U.S. winner: Oregon's lean Saubert, 21, who won the Kandahar women's slalom, beating France's Olympic Champion Marielle Goitschel...
Four other female House members rose to second the idea. But Oregon Democrat Edith Green went and spoiled all the fun. "At the risk of being called an Aunt Jane, if not an Uncle Tom," she said, "let us not add any amendment that would get in the way of our primary objective." Her logic failed to impress the House. It passed the amendment, 168 to 133, to the delight of a woman in the gallery, who shouted, "We made it! We made it! God bless America!" She was promptly ejected...
...family's interest in modern art. Atlanta's Arthur Harris, vice president of the Mead Corp., started a combined contest and traveling exhibition of paintings that has become an important art event in the Southeast. Many banks decorate their lobbies and executive offices with art (Oregon's U.S. National Bank even hangs oils in its ladies' lounges). But New York's Manhattan Savings Bank goes them one better: it provides the public with noonday piano recitals and evening operas on its banking floors. At the urging of Opera Buff John M. Will, president of American...
...nine years, Robinson and Pacific Northwest, a consortium of four private power firms, have been seeking approval to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam at Mountain Sheep in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. Competing with Pacific Northwest was the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which offered to build a comparable dam at Mountain Sheep or an even bigger one (800 ft. high and costing $369 million) farther north at Nez Perce. And bucking both was Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, who wanted the Federal Government...