Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loose-limbed man with an inbred love of the outdoors and a mustang liberalism, Oregon's U.S. Senator Richard Lewis Neuberger seemed to embody the brashness and youthful vigor of the Northwest. His precocity and eagerness did not make him popular with his fellow Senators, but two years ago Dick Neuberger fought a brave and desperate battle against cancer that changed their minds-and changed Dick Neuberger. He scoffed at the 1-20 odds his doctors gave him, underwent surgery and won the fight-along with the admiration and sympathy of his colleagues. His struggle left him a humbler...
...Chamber of Commerce for the Northwest he loved so well. In 1950 he and his pretty wife Maurine became a political as well as a marital team-he as a state senator, she as a representative. In 1952 both Neubergers were reelected, the only candidates in Oregon to outrun Dwight Eisenhower. Two years later, Dick decided to try for the U.S. Senate and, with a warm assist from Senator Wayne Morse (an erstwhile Republican), Democrat Neuberger won by an eyelash 2,000 votes. In 1956 he returned the favor, campaigned vigorously for Morse (a Democrat by that time...
...instinct about the Senate to signal the right time to produce a proposal that had a chance to satisfy Northern liberals, moderate Democrats and Republicans, give him the 67 (two-thirds plus one) votes to win cloture and pass the legislation itself. Apparently the time was days away; when Oregon's maverick Democrat Wayne Morse offered a cloture petition in one predawn session, Kentucky's usually affable Thruston Morton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strode to the clerk's desk and ripped...
Funston pointed out that a decade ago, only 4% of the nation's 10 million high-school students were ever expected to take economics, and that only one state, Oregon, required economics for a high-school diploma. Since then, "the number of students taking economics shows no discernible upward trend," although in the same decade the number of Americans who own stock has nearly doubled from 6,500,000 to 12,500,000-owing, in no small part, to Funston's own efforts to bring new investors into the stock market...
...freshmen come almost entirely from the top 5% of their high school graduating classes. Pennsylvania's Haverford has long been a sort of pocket Harvard, has an impressive faculty-student ratio of 1 to 7. Iowa's Grinnell is known as "the Harvard of the Midwest," and Oregon's Reed boasts one Rhodes scholarship for every 70 male graduates-the highest percentage in the nation...