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...John Birch bureaucracy that feeds Welch consists of about 250 full-time staff people, 110 of them in Belmont and the rest scattered around the country (there is a secondary headquarters in San Marino, California.) In Belmont, the Society occupies three buildings--it owns 395 Concord Avenue, and a sympathetic real estate agency provided two others. At the warehouse, wholesale book, and shipping division at 778 Pleasant Street, between a drugstore and a gas station, there were canyons of books in cardboard boxes (unfortunate because the covers are the best parts), and two fifty-foot tables in the basement where...
...Belmont, however, these issues form a small fraction of the bookshelves. The pride and joy of Society headquarters is the $40,000 mail-stuffing machine, which according to Gotch, can put as many as nine enclosures in a letter, fold, seal, and stamp a computer-typed address on it, and churn 'em out at 50 per minute...
...incentive for renewing subscriptions to the Society's monthly American Opinion magazine. The Society also sends copies out to local chapters across the country for the chapter library. Gotch showed me boxes of materials, including back issues of publications and reprints of articles, as well as books, which Belmont sends to the chapters. "There's fifty dollars worth of stuff in each of those boxes, retail value," he said reverently...
Inspiration for the chapters comes from the John Birch Society's third building in Belmont, 4 Hill Road. This completely unmarked colonial block-building in the midst of suburbia also houses the Society's research files, which take up most of the second floor in row upon row of olive-green Army-jeep-looking file cabinets. William E. Dunham, the research director for the Society, called the files "invaluable...
...scenery, moving back and forth from the crowded, multi-colored streets of Venice to Portia's country house in Belmont, was well-conceived by Joe Mobilia. In many ways, the scenery deserves the lion's share of the credit for integrating Act Five with the rest of the play. On paper the change from the tragic confrontation of justice and mercy in the high pomp of the Doge's court to the light-headed romanticism and cheeky bawdry of the lover's idyll in Belmont is puzzling. It is difficult to get the bad taste of what has been done...