Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan's Tactic. For those Governors who had hoped that Sun Valley's blanket of snow might cool off Agnew's language, that was too much. Fumed Oregon's Tom McCall, who had earlier urged President Nixon to consider candidates other than Agnew for the 1972 ticket: "There was the most unbelievable, incredible misunderstanding of the mood of America in that rotten, bigoted little speech." Other Governors labeled it simply "defensive." By the time that Agnew sat down to a closed-door breakfast with 21 of the Governors, as he later put it in an understatement...
...outgrowth of the hippie movement, there are about 3,000, a third of which are in rural settings. "There are farms everywhere now, and we might go in any direction on compass to find warm bread and salt," writes Raymond Mungo in Total Loss Farm. Although Vermont, Oregon, California and New Mexico are still the favored states, some new commune clusters are cropping up in what Mungo calls "the relatively inferior terrain and vibration of Massachusetts and points south and west, and the huge strain of friendless middle America...
...three were leaving for a summer session at the University of Oregon, they were delighted to learn that Karen was pregnant. "We'll all take turns caring for it," says Janis, "just as we share all the household chores. That way each of us has time for things we like to do best...
...December 26, Harvard travels to Portland, Oregon, for the opening round of the Far West Classic. It faces Oregon...
...they were so many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds University of Oregon Coach Jerry Frei, a 33-10 victim of Plunkett's passing: "I'm very happy to see him graduate...