Word: birches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week in the worst series of forest fires that the state has seen in nearly a decade. Culminating a summer in which more than 200 fires have occurred, the biggest fire of all raged around the Fortymile River's West Fork, consuming the black spruce, cottonwood and paper birch and turning the green hills to barren black. At week's end, six other major fires spreading across a 500-mile arc still ravaged the nation's largest state...
...this month, Political Science Professor Louis Midgley of Brigham Young University presents a surprisingly sympathetic Mormon criticism of the late Paul Tillich's vision of a nonpersonal God. In another article, Political Scientist J. D. Williams candidly reports that the Mormon hierarchy appeared ready to endorse the John Birch Society earlier this year, but after pressure from one group of church elders, "stepped back from the abyss." In an implicit criticism of the church's policy of barring Negroes from its priesthood, Mormon Karl Keller describes the profound spirituality of the American Negro in an essay...
...well-entrenched conservatives, who resented his lackluster support of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and his leadership of the successful fight to dump Goldwaterite Dean Burch as national committee chairman and install moderate Ray Bliss in his place. Nor did his urging that the G.O.P. repudiate the John Birch Society go over well...
...G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority who supported Barry Goldwater in 1964 went along without a murmur of dissent...
...South Dakota's Republican Senator 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...