Word: oregon
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Administrator-Leader. As its president for the next three years, the council elected a man who matches the new mood. Arthur Flemming, 61, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Eisenhower and has since 1961 been president of the University of Oregon. Methodist Flemming holds that "the worker-church and the evangelists can work hand-in-hand," but expects that his own chief value to the council will be as administrator. "I have had 30 years of experience in business and government, and the same basic principles of management apply to the council," he says...
...other potential candidates, Reagan says: "I have a four-year contract with the people of California, and I intend to keep the contract"; Rocky insists that he is really "out of the picture" this time; and such newcomers as Senators-elect Charles Percy of Illinois and Mark Hatfield of Oregon, as well as New York's Mayor John Lindsay, are considered more promising for 1972. That leaves Richard Nixon, whose chief support comes from precisely those regions where Romney is weakest because of his 1964 defection-the South and parts of the Midwest...
...significant were Republican gains in secondary statewide races, legislatures and courthouses. Democratic majorities were transmuted into Republican majorities in both houses of the legislatures in Alaska, Arizona and Utah. The G.O.P. also won complete control of a divided legislature in Colorado, half of previously all-Democratic legislatures in Washington, Oregon and Montana...
...victories in the congressional races. The Democrats lost ten of their 48 Representatives, among them such Capitol Hill veterans as California's seven-termer Harlan Hagen, defeated by Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. In Senate contests no incumbent was defeated, and the Democrats had only one loss, the Oregon seat of retiring Maurine Neuberger that was captured by Mark Hatfield...
...Jack Williams and Nevada's Paul Laxalt stand close to Goldwater, while Idaho's Don Samuelson stands, if possible, to the right of Barry. Colorado's John Love, on the other hand, is more of the Scranton stripe while New Mexico's David Cargo and Oregon's Tom McCall would agree on most issues with Nelson Rockefeller or Jacob Javits...