Word: birches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macmillan recovered his composure. "They have deeply wounded me," he told a Tory rally, adding: "It will not break my spirit." But the House still remembered the words of Tory Rebel Nigel Birch, who during the big debate had quoted Browning's The Lost Leader at Harold Macmillan...
From the outside, the small whitewashed house, surrounded by tiny birch and fir trees, looks as if it might belong to a mousy little spinster who would never do anything that would cause talk among the neighbors. But the house on the outskirts of Brussels belongs to Paul Delvaux, a grey-maned, sad-faced man of 65 who, next to René Magritte, is Belgium's top surrealist and can sometimes be seen standing in his studio wearing blue jeans and sandals, slowly filling a huge canvas with vacant-eyed female nudes. Against one wall stands...
...Frank Whetstone of Cut Bank, Mont., "can sell-and he can win." In California, former Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a Rockefeller man, admits Goldwater gains over Rockefeller in his state, but insists that Barry "couldn't possibly win." Nonetheless, California has a huge assortment of conservatives -from mild to Birch. They are well organized and gave Richard Nixon a tough fight in the gubernatorial primaries last year. If the delegation goes to the convention uninstructed-as may well happen-California might split its votes down the middle, with half each for Rocky and Goldwater...
...Pooh-Pooh to You." In the current session Kuchel has emerged as the Senate's most outspoken Republican foe of the radical right. In a floor speech a few weeks ago, he denounced the John Birch Society and other "fright peddlers," as he called them, for spreading tales about United Nations plots to take control of the U.S. with the connivance of the U.S. Government. Right-wing extremists claim to be conservatives, said Kuchel, but they "defile the honorable philosophy of conservatism with that claim." They also claim to be patriots, but they are "unpatriotic and downright un-American...
Having once fumed and fulminated in 200 newspapers, Pegler, now 68, has failed to line up any papers at all since Hearst dropped him, and his only regular platform is Candyman Robert Welch's American Opinion magazine, monthly bark of the John Birch Society. But if Pegler has lost his outlets, he has lost none of his gift for invective and his rogues' gallery is as crowded as ever. Nelson Rockefeller, he told an interviewer last week, is an "arrogant, dangerous man." Bobby Kennedy is a "mean little jerk who never earned a thing in his life...