Word: oregon
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Welfare v. Crime. Once in a while he indulged in campaign high jinks, such as in Oregon, Ill., where he waggled a pair of corncobs behind Wife Peggy's ears. But mostly, Barry was all business, and wherever his chartered Boeing 727 jet, the Yia Bi Kin (Navajo for House in the Sky), touched down, Goldwater ripped into the Democrats. He accused them of planning to dismantle U.S. defenses, joked that the Air Force might soon need "Hertz rent-a-bombers," repeatedly attacked Lyndon Johnson for listing prosperity, justice and peace, "but not freedom," as his goals...
...collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show, Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane, Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts the best rest rooms of all, with a diaper-changing room for harried mothers...
...Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the Academy of Sciences has a larger-than-life rattlesnake jaw with fangs, which snaps shut at the push of a button, and an instant earthquake showing the heaving innards of the earth. Oregon's imaginative Museum of Science and Industry in Portland offers a "micro-zoo" that, by magnifying a drop of water 200 times, reveals the teeming life in it. "We want to make a simple scientific statement the student will understand," says Executive Director Loren McKinley. "We don't go in for pinball exhibits...
Married. Terry Baker, 23, former All-America quarterback from Oregon State, now with the Los Angeles Rams; and Marilyn Davis, 21, his college sweetheart; in Las Vegas...
...called "the Spaghetti Bowl." Near Harrisburg, Pa., five different pipelines parallel one another through the Allegheny Mountains. Pacific Gas & Electric's 36-in., 1,400-mile "Big Yard" carries 600 million cu. ft. of Canadian natural gas daily to 34 California counties and to Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The Big Yard is the largest, longest gas pipeline in the U.S., but it may soon be surpassed by a 1,550-mile line that will carry Texas gas to the Los Angeles plants of California Edison...