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...they and he are heard from (see THE WORLD). And in the PRESS section, we note the first appearance of an ambitious new Sunday paper, the National Observer, and in the columns of the right-wing National Review we find one of the most effective indictments yet of the Birch Society...
...ever signed the proclamation, the mayor of San Jose said that his signature had been obtained "by misrepresentation," and the city councils of Berkeley, Sunnyvale and Mill Valley refused to endorse their mayors' signatures. California's Attorney General Stanley Mosk (who once described the John Birch Society as being composed of "retired military officers and little old ladies in tennis shoes") now called the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade a "fly-by-night promotion." Cried he: "Communism is much too serious a problem to leave in the hands of promoters and political opportunists." A group of eight prominent clergymen...
...these days, too. In San Francisco's hungry i, for example, Comedian Mark Russell tells his audiences about the movie version of The Conscience of a Conservative: "It's going to be a silent, sponsored by Pierce-Arrow." Then, of course, there's the John Birch Society. And at Manhattan's Upstairs at the Downstairs, a Birch sextet nightly sings a sort of battle hymn of the reactionaries, with verses like...
Join the John Birch Society...
...least one conservative member of the HYRC has cracked under the strain of belonging to an organization that harbors both John Birch YAFers and the publisher of Advance...