Word: birches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Team Captain Pete Alter provides added strength for the diving squad. John Bragg and Pete Adams back up Shrout in the freestyle and individual medley events. The weakest area on the team is the 200 yard backstroke event where the best backstroker, Alan Birch, could do last year was a not-fast-enough...
...Justice Department intervene; then, a week before the election, he charged in Federal Court that Krupa and others were violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His charges drew nationwide attention and brought demands for federal action from both of Indiana's Democratic Senators, Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh...
...Less serious criticism may well be muted henceforth. Robert Welch recently announced that his John Birch Society was shelving its "Impeach Earl Warren" campaign for lack of public response...
Randall Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
Angriest of all are the John Birchers, whose leader, Robert Welch, was eviscerated by Buckley in a series of articles. As a result, even though Buckley works are still carried in Birch bookshops, Buckley now receives much more hate mail from the far right than the far left. A wall of his office in Review's midtown Manhattan building is papered with nasty letters. "Buckley's articles cost the Birchers their respectability with conservatives," says Richard Nixon. "I couldn't have accomplished that. Liberals couldn't have, either...