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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Success in the Democratic primary virtually guarantees the State Senate seat in this heavily Democratic district, which includes sections of Brighton, Belmont and Watertown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCann Senate Bid Aided By Split in Liberal Field | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

Mendelson and Mello conducted a 40-day study at McLean Hospital in Belmont of ten male volunteers who had used heroin for an average of ten years and had failed to quit after treatment with the two drugs currently used, methadone and naltrexone...

Author: By Robert J. Campbell, | Title: Research Finds Drug to Treat Heroin Addicts | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...American flag never comes down at 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont. Illuminated at night and resilient through foul weather, the Stars and Stripes provides the only glint of color near the bleak rectangle of red bricks. This is a decidedly no-nonsense building, surrounded by an equally no-nonsense post office and public library. No doubt about it, there is work to be done at the national headquarters of the John Birch Society, 12 minutes from Harvard Square...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: John Birch Society: Cranky Adolescence | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...John Birch Society owns three building sin Belmont, two of them devoted entirely to the Birch publishing empire. In addition to a monthly Birch Society Bulletin, which 80-years-old Welch still writes, and a weekly reactionary news analysis magazine called The Review of the News, the society publishes hundreds of pamphlets like "McCarthy: The Truth, the Smear and the Lesson." and "They killed the President : Lee Harvey Oswald Wasn't Alone," (Surprise, he had help from Communists). The society also runs Western Island Press, publishers of conservative tracts like "Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan," an attack...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: John Birch Society: Cranky Adolescence | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Since the mid-'60s, the society's has been a prosaic; if mildly prosperous, existence. With little turnover in membership, about 200 people constantly work in Belmont, the western headquarters in San Marino, Calif., and in the field. A council whose members include former New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thompson and Bunker Hunt, of the Texas oil family, raised and administer an 58 million budget that has not changed in about five years. The latest major project is something called TRIM, Tax Reform Immediately, an organization of local pamphleteers who rate their congressman by his stands on raising taxes. Far from...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: John Birch Society: Cranky Adolescence | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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