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...electors chosen by the state's voters to reflect their choice. By tradition, all the electoral votes should have gone automatically to Richard Nixon as winner of a plurality of the state's popular vote. Rather than ratify the Republican victory, however, Bailey, a loyal John Bircher, handed over one-thirteenth of the total votes to Wallace, because, as he put it: "Nixon has already clearly shown to us that we are going to have more of the same...
Oklahoma. "Basically I am a conservative," explains Republican Henry Bellmon, "but I am sure as hell not a John Bircher or an isolationist." His political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate. Mindful that he overturned able Democratic Veteran Senator Mike Monroney with the argument that Monroney, 66, had lost touch with his grass roots, Rancher Bellmon is not likely to spend all his time in Washington...
...Karl Mundt, 66, was nominated for a fourth term, winning nearly 75% of the vote in a race against Richard Murphy, 37, an arch-conservative Sioux Falls attorney. Murphy dropped his membership in the John Birch Society in February, accusing it of interfering in his campaign; yet with the Bircher's characteristic astigmatism, he went so far as to label Conservative Mundt as a liberal "like Hubert Humphrey." With the prestige and seniority of 18 years in the Senate, Mundt is seen as a shoo-in over Democratic State Representative Donn H. Wright, 44, in November...
...three Martinis, and Jerkism to pretend that Pop Art is Art. It is Jerkism for a boy to grow his hair like a girl's, and . . . Jerkism for a nonrabbinical student to grow a beard. It is Jerkism to be a Communist, and Jerkism to be a John Bircher...
...like the Beatles." Originally, when the cigarette girl asked, "Wh'd'ya say if I was to tell you I'm a commyanist?", Sadie replied, "Fd say ya was bats. I was a Townsendite. Where'd it get me?" Today Sadie says, "I was a Bircher...