Word: ores
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Sheela, a raven-haired 35-year-old who joined the sect in 1973, was the leader of the first band of Rajneeshees that settled in 1981 in what was then Antelope, Ore., a hamlet of 40. As their numbers increased, the sannyasins (followers) bought out older residents, registered to vote and took over the city council, changing the name Antelope to Rajneesh in 1984. Sheela was responsible for the scheme to recruit about 3,500 homeless people for the commune last fall, in what observers believe was an attempt to load the voting rolls against longer-term residents of Wasco...
Brookings, Ore. (pop. 5,000), was the only community on the U.S. mainland to be bombed during World War II. The town is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the war's end in equally unique fashion: this week three Brookings high school students will tour Japan as guests of the pilot who flew the missions...
...audience seemed to prefer the brightly hued and wildly imaginative entries in the aesthetic design and aerobatics events. There were butterflies, dragonflies, bats, flying Supermen and airborne pineapples, as well as F-14 scale models, Star Wars fighters and twin-rotor helicopters. Curtis Haynie, 8, of Hood River, Ore., said his favorite was the slime-green "Flying Lizard," which, according to handling instructions written by its owner, should be fed "small rodents, twice daily." Contest sponsors emphasized that a child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs in design. A case...
MARRIED. Bruce Springsteen, 35, rock superstar; and Julianne Phillips, 25, model and actress; both for the first time; in a dead-of-night hastily moved- up ceremony in a candlelit church, after a hectic weekend with reporters and fans besieging the Phillips home; in Lake Oswego, Ore...
That female sigh reverberating across the land was for rock's working-class hero, born to run and now saddled for the marriage stakes. Bruce Springsteen, 35, is settling down with his sweetheart of six months, Julianne Phillips, 25, a model turned actress from Lake Oswego, Ore. He and the blue-eyed brunet beauty will wed this week in a nuptial Mass at her hometown church (both are Roman Catholics, neither has been married before). "We're very proud to have Bruce Springsteen in our family," bubbled the rocker's mother-in-law-to-be. "We just couldn...