Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing morass of overlapping services and functions, especially in counties that have experienced a big building rush. In the 17 towns that comprise Denver's four-county suburban area, for example, there are 27 school districts, 35 water districts, 59 sanitation districts. The Suburbia of Portland, Ore. embraces three counties, 178 special service districts, 60 school districts, twelve city governments. And the granddaddy of them all is the megalopolis of Los Angeles which is fish-netted with 72 separate governments and an uncounted array of districts, authorities, and floating unincorporated communities...
...Justin Koss, "need the Little League. But some need to dig in their own backyards, too. The trouble is that plenty of parents think that if their kid isn't in Little League, there's something abnormal about him." Declares Shirley Vandenberg, 33 (three children), of Portland, Ore.'s suburban Oak Grove: "We don't need Blue Birds and Boy Scouts out here. This is not the slums. The kids out here have the great outdoors. I think people are so bored, they organize the children, and then try to hook everyone else...
...Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...
...less than an hour, the customers can cross the Rockies in an ore bucket, cruise the Great Lakes in a sternwheeler, crouch in a bunker at Cape Canaveral and watch the missile gap narrow with a perfect shot every six minutes. On the northern outskirts of New York City (the real one), where big, white-ribbon highways trellis over swampy wastes, Freedomland opens next week. Billed as "the world's largest outdoor entertainment center," it rises out of a former garbage dump, is nothing less than a replica of the continental U.S.A., 833 yds. from parkway to shining parkway...
Grants Pass, Ore...