Nation: Oregon Roundup

Here it was, just two weeks before the Oregon presidential primary, and the only Republican candidate still in there personally swinging was Nelson Rockefeller.

Rocky delivered a speech in Portland and drew an enthusiastic crowd of 2,000. When he got to Grants Pass (pop. 10,000), a bunch of characters wearing animal skins descended and made him a member of the Oregon Cavemen, a local society that quadrennially pops up to embarrass presidential candidates by making them look like idiots in photographs. In Albany (pop. 13,000), several colorfully clad "Princesses" belonging to the Timber...

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