Word: oregon
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...sign of national charisma. Either that or it's a new gauge of popularity," said Oregon Governor Tom McCall after winning the Governors' competition in the annual Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee (inspired by Mark Twain's celebrated story). Thanks to a five-year-old bullfrog named John's Long Tom, McCall bested 30 rival gubernatorial frogophiles and walked away with first prize for the third time in six years. Neighboring California Governor Ronald Reagan's frog finished a dismal 20th. The booby prize in the candidates' competition went to California's Lieutenant...
...deputy assistant attorney general: "There are no defenses that will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged for rendering legal services." Added Clearwaters last week: "There will probably be other cases as well...
...that the Virginia state bar association, as a quasi-official body, is immune from such suits. The court also endorsed two other defenses: that local lawyers making title searches do not sufficiently affect interstate commerce and that the law and other "learned professions" are exempt from antitrust regulation. The Oregon bar will rely on similar defenses. Justice lawyers are undeterred. "We simply believe the Fourth Circuit is wrong," says Bruce Wilson. "So it's clear that we have to have a definitive U.S. Supreme Court resolution of this question...
...Iowa concluded that the documents "do prove conclusively that Mr. Nixon made many misleading statements to the American people on his knowledge of the Watergate cover-up." Gross also found "an amazing lack of ethical sensitivity in the office of the presidency." Similarly, Republican Senator Robert W. Packwood of Oregon said that he considered Nixon's view of Government "rather frightening" because "there are not even any token cliches about what is good for the people." Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, former head of the Republican National Committee, was asked by a reporter if he would want the President...
...farther the better. The Associated Press questioned the eleven G.O.P. Senators who are running for reelection, and only one said that he planned to ask the President for campaign help. He was Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, who served as a national campaign chairman for Nixon in 1968. Oregon's Bob Packwood said that "most people would now regard close association with the Administration as the kiss of death...