Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parishes. Catholic-run Fordham University will offer next September a series of lectures and discussions about sex in all its nonpathological aspects. Organizations devoted to the spread of sex education are swamped with requests for help in designing courses. Says Curtis Avery, professor of education at the University of Oregon: "Sex education apparently no longer must be sold; it has been bought." Mostly it has been bought by the parents themselves, who are virtually besieging the schools to take...
Though Johnson's statement included an implicit threat of U.S. intervention, it was heartily applauded by many of those who have most stridently and steadfastly castigated U.S. intervention in Viet Nam. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse urged the maritime nations to test the Egyptian blockade by sending ships into the gulf "with their flags flying." Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who knows where the votes come from in New York, proposed that the U.N. send a naval patrol into the gulf. If the U.N. failed to act, he said, the U.S. should step in with other interested nations...
Skiing, say the experts, has advanced 30 m.p.h. in 30 years; metal skis, lightweight safety bindings, improved waxing and modern stretch suits have all aided that advance. Even foot racing has new and faster tracks, to say nothing of better shoes. In 1960, University of Oregon Coach Bill Bowerman developed shoes that weighed only 4 oz., compared with 6 oz. for the old "lightweights." The difference might seem minor, says Bowerman, "but you know what it meant in a mile race? The runner was lifting 200 pounds less." Now a German firm has produced a 2½ oz. shoe...
...West is a standard horse epic in which the Oregon trail is a metaphor for life and the people in the wagon train are symbolic of mankind. Adapted from a novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr., the film has somehow lost the earthy realism of the book, and has become merely a landlocked ship of fools. Among the passengers are a flint-eyed scout (Robert Mitchum), a pioneering couple (Richard Widmark and Lola Albright), a frightened newlywed who alternately freezes and teases her husband, a Negro slave-not to mention a crowd of teenagers, old folks and other essentials...
...leads the way but never settles in the promised land. Thirty miles from it, as he descends by rope from a cliff, the widowed bride coldly cuts the cord and he plummets to the rocks below. A wooden slab marks his resting place, and the troupe troops on to Oregon...