Word: birching
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People who think the Far Right took the ten count last November should visit California's 27th Congressional District. This grotesquely shaped hunk of Los Angeles County was designed, by a Democratic legislature, to get rid of a Republican Congressman who was a member of the John Birch Society. The voters cooperated in 1962. But in 1964, the Democratic Congressman retired, and the Republican candidate--who stands perhaps 1 to the left of Birch--won. The 27th was one of four Congressional Districts outside the South to go Democratic in 1962 and Republican in 1964. And it is no coincidence...
...center will be surrounded by every imaginable type of foliage, from wisteria-covered bowers to a forest of birch trees. In the middle of the forest, Zion intends to put an artificial twelve-foot waterfall...
...Harvard Young Republican Club's executive committee decided. Tuesday that the club will not become a forum for the John Birch Society, even though club president David L. McNicol '66 was preparing to invite Robert Welch, chairman of the Society, to speak sometime this...
Power & Principles. Last week the Senate finally faced up to the problem and passed (72 to 0) a proposed constitutional amendment giving Vice Presidents full power until disabled Presidents recover.* Sponsored by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, the amendment provides that if a President fails to make known his inability, the Vice President could take over "with the written concurrence of a majority of the Cabinet or any other body specified by Congress." If a still unrecovered President tried to return, the Acting President and the Cabinet would have seven days in which to ask Congress to "proceed to decide...
...loves America more than the John Birch Society and no one understands it less," Gordon Hall, lecturer and expert of American extremism, said last night at the Episcopal Theological Seminary...