Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Writer Birnbaum had the advantage of this firsthand source, he was also provided with the extensive research of 21 TIME correspondents, who roamed the suburbs encircling 21 U.S. metropolitan centers from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Portland, Me. to Dallas. Interviewing hundreds of commuting doctors, lawyers and P.T.A. chiefs, not to mention their wives, the reporters produced more than 400 pages of the rich lore of Suburbia...
...Suburbia's 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...
...Psychologist 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...
Toward the end of the campaign, Morse seemed to recognize the handwriting on the wall. "I'll hold my nose and vote for him, even campaign for him," he told an audience of longshoremen in Portland, "because even he's better than Nixon, and that's the best I can say for him." Morse was similarly gracious in his telegram of concession: "Mrs. Morse and I extend to you and Mrs. Kennedy congratulations on your victory in Oregon...
When I first heard Margaret Sanger in Portland, Ore. in 1925, she was arrested after her lecture on the great human need for birth control. Americans have moved far in half a century...