Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon. The hold that windy Wayne Morse has on the voters of Oregon is one of the great puzzles in U.S. politics. Republican Sig Unander is making a hard run, but the puzzle probably will remain unsolved...
...Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse leaned back in a chair, bristled his brows, compared himself with Edmund Burke and declared himself above politics: "I go where the facts lead, and if partisan politics don't go where they lead, then that's too bad." He grinned at Republican claims that he is the Senate's windiest member: "Reelect me and I'll make more speeches next session-there's so much to be said." He scoffed at reports that he might be in election trouble: "I know of no basis for such stories...
...chides Morse for leading the Senate filibuster against the Kennedy Administration's communications satellite bill this year, accuses Morse of supporting Kennedy's withdrawal of U.S. planes during the crucial moments of the Bay of Pigs invasion, charges Morse with a "performance gap" in failing to land Oregon its proper share of defense contracts...
Prime reason for the trustbusters' belated move was a suspicion that the three companies had an unwritten agreement on marketing areas. Richfield, healthy once again and now the 18th largest U.S. oil company, has 4,600 service stations in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona, and controls about 10% of the gasoline market in those states. But never since it came out of bankruptcy has it tried to spread eastward again. Similarly, Sinclair (the nation's ninth largest oil company) and Cities Service (tenth) have stayed out of western markets almost entirely on the avowed ground...
Died. Representative Clement Miller. 45, voluble, spike-witted liberal Democrat from California's mammoth First Congressional District (San Francisco Bay to Oregon), grandson of a onetime Delaware Republican Governor, author (Member of the House, a collection of informal letters conveying the tempo of Congress to his constituents), and one of twelve liberals linked to the highly incendiary The Liberal Papers, a volume of strong-winded essays on U.S. foreign policy published last March; on a campaign swing for his third term when the twin-engined plane ferrying him crashed on Chaparral Mountain in northern California...