Word: birches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal funds into the Hoosier capital, and won re-election in 1971 by a 3 to 2 majority. He has long been known as "President Nixon's favorite mayor," but his star has been dimmed by Watergate and a police scandal. Lugar, who is campaigning for Democrat Birch Bayh's Senate seat, has begun to divorce himself from the President, criticizing Nixon for "sorry conduct that is deeply disappointing...
...served; if you are not in the mood for a hot dog, order the pastrami on a bun. The side dishes at Zum Zum beef up what might otherwise be a skimpy meal. Light and dark beer is served, but if you are on the wagon Zum Zum's birch beer will...
Many powerful conservative and special-interest groups lobbied hard against land planning. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called the bill a worrisome manifestation of "no growth" philosophy. Timber, real estate and home-building officials feared that it would restrict their business. Right-wing organizations, including the John Birch Society, claimed that the legislation would amount to "confiscation of property without compensation...
Someone two weeks ago mailed all 100 U.S. Senators a four-page pamphlet that was written by the ultra-right-wing John Birch Society and demanded President Nixon's impeachment. The grounds for this action were unblinkingly harsh: Nixon's "deliberate treason" in the conduct of both foreign and domestic policy. Almost as bad, the diatribe went on, "Mr. Nixon has spent more money-and has spent it more wastefully-than any other President, monarch, dictator or ruler of any kind in all human history...
...Eugene C. Pulliam, 84, and his son Eugene S., 59, assistant publisher of both the Star and the Indianapolis News. For six years their conservative papers have firmly backed Republican Mayor Richard Lugar, and the exposé came just as Lugar was launching a senatorial campaign against Democratic Incumbent Birch Bayh, a Pulliam target...