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...button. Oregon's spoofing James G. Elaine Society* says of its own "Magnet" state: "You can always tell when it's summer in Oregon-the rain gets warm." Oregon Governor Tom McCall is even more hard-nosed. "The concept of earlier decades was population growth at all costs," says McCall. "Well, that cost is now proving too much to pay, and we want none of that in Oregon." McCall started to tell tourists two years ago, "Come visit us, but for heaven's sake don't come here to live." Now he adds, "Soon...
...plastic shrubs and a golden moose head that juts over the street like a ship's prow, the lodge presents an austere façade of concrete, without windows. A sign on the closed front door says MEMBERS ONLY. Anyone who wants to enter must press a button and wait to be inspected by the bartender via closed-circuit...
...information to a computer, which is connected to a screen and a cash register. As the computer flashes the price of each item on the screen, it also rings up the cost on the register, emitting bleeps for each item. When the computer is finished, the cashier punches a button, the total shows up on the screen and an itemized sales slip pops from the register. All the cashier then has to do is ring up the money and make change...
...March afternoon in 1970, he strode resolutely across the stage of the Dom Sindikata Theater in Belgrade, sat down behind two ranks of white chessmen, reached across the table and shook hands with former World Champion Petrosian, shoved the king's pawn two squares forward, punched the button on the dual-faced time clock, pulled a Parker Jotter from inside his black and white checked Hong Kong suit, scribbled the notation PK4 on his score sheet and dug in. Nearly five hours and 39 moves later, Petrosian surveyed the shattered remains of his Caro-Kann defense, stood up and shook...
...delegates listened to a parade of pleas for platform planks by homosexuals, advocates of abortion, and welfare organizers. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, wearing a button reading TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE, argued for radical tax reform?a plank the convention rejected. Hour after hour, the session ground on, with the delegates resisting pleas for adjournment. When they were finished, they had adopted a very liberal, semi-populist platform. The order in which the disputes were handled served party unity and party image: Wallace's package was considered first, and the more controversial items such as abortion and gay liberation were...