Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hunting time in Chevy Chase, and the property that caught the eye of the prospects was Bonnie Brae, the estate of Washington Department Store Heir Nathaniel H. Luttrell Jr. After negotiations are completed for the landscaped grounds and 17-room fieldstone and brick house, the new neighbor at 6036 Oregon Avenue, N.W., wall probably be Anatoly F. Dobrynin, 42, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Reported price for the new embassy...
...Spectacular view. $27,500." Poet Frost, 88, suffering from blood clots and now in a Boston hospital, has not lived in the house since 1939, after his wife died and he turned it over to his daughter-in-law and grandson, Naval Architect William Prescot Frost. Since moving to Oregon, they decided to sell the house where the venerable poet had lived for nearly 20 years. The buyer: a doctor -a "longtime Frost fan"-from the same hospital where Frost is a patient...
BETTER TEACHING: $3,500,000 to reform teaching in all the public schools of Oregon; similar grants went to the schools of Newton, Mass., and Norwalk, Conn...
Most Reed students come from California, followed by Oregon, Washington and New York. The universal lure is Reed's blend of social and academic freedom. "Dad dreamed of Caltech," says one boy from Los Angeles. "I didn't want to leave out the humanities, and Portland is a convenient 1,000 miles from home." The dominance of outsiders is one of Reed's chief problems with Portland. Harvard-trained President Richard H. Sullivan on the one hand exults in his students' hot loyalty to "the Reed community," and on the other laments their disdain for Portland...
...runs completely on the honor system, from exams to evening "intervisitation" between boys and girls in the dormitories. Reed is so anti-organization that it has no fraternities and only the most tepid intercollegiate athletics-a dart competition with a Catholic seminary, a basketball game with the University of Oregon's dental school. The usual weekend diet is study, study, study...