Word: oregon
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...ignore him publicly and try to downgrade his importance. Privately, however, the White House is deeply worried about the Congressman's threat. In 1976 Eugene McCarthy, running independently, won just 1% of the vote, but the Carterites insist that was enough to tip Maine, Iowa, Oklahoma and Oregon into Ford's column...
After the local newspaper published a story about Goiri in July, the cow-magnet craze struck Oregon, Idaho and Washington like gold fever. In ten days, Stocklin Supply near Portland, one of the largest animal health stores in the Northwest, sold 35,000 of the devices. It usually sells 15,000 to 20,000 a year. Goiri now has a patented kit called Magnetic Fuel Savers, which contains two plastic-coated magnets, clamps for fastening them to the fuel line, and directions for the rumble-fingered. Price: $16 to $19.90. Goiri has been contacted by some automotive-parts distributors...
N.U.C. students register in one of the consortium's cooperating local colleges. The TV programs are beamed from Maryland to local stations or cable systems serving Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, New York City, Pullman, Wash., State College, Pa., Moscow, Idaho, as well as Maryland, Oregon and Vermont. TV-viewing students will get credits and degrees from the college nearest them; those enrollees not served by a local college have to register with the extension division of the University of Maryland...
Many people in the state of Washington would undoubtedly be happy to palm off Mount St. Helens on someone else [Aug. 11]. However, our mean-tempered volcano has not yet propelled itself across the Columbia River into Oregon...
...South, Carter's aides say they will make some effort to take California from Reagan, at least to the extent of making Reagan protect his base, thus tying up money and manpower he could use elsewhere. The Carterites believe they have a chance to take Washington and Oregon, especially if Anderson's strength declines as they predict. This could give them two states they did not win in 1976. But the Rocky Mountain and Western plains states seem to be firmly in Reagan's camp...