Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of the bills call for Congress to elect a new vice-President when that office becomes vacant. A second group would have the President name a new vice-President. A proposed Constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) combines the best parts of these two proposals; Bayh's bill would have the President nominate a man, who would then have to be confirmed by Congress. This suggestion would avoid having Congress dictate its choice to the President; the need for Congressional confirmation provides a valuable cheek, on the President's decision...
...small town of Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,001), but it had a big-city price tag: the plaintiffs asked $225,000 damages for libel and conspiracy. The cast of characters read like the line-up for a movie: an admitted ex-Communist, an organizer for the John Birch Society, two former state legislators (one a Democrat, the other Republican) and a dapper weekly newspaper publisher. Bit parts were to be played by a Hollywood star and an ex-U.S. Senator...
...leary of announcing against Engle lest they be charged with taking political advantage of his illness. At least three have thus been biding their time. They are Representative James Roosevelt, 56, F.D.R.'s oldest son; State Attorney General Stanley Mosk, 51, best known for the memorable description of Birch Society members as "wealthy businessmen, retired military officers and little old ladies in tennis shoes"; and State Controller Alan Cranston, 49, a leader of the liberal California Democratic Council...
...conservative forces have already begun to use America's belief in Oswald's guilt to show that they are correct in opposing "communists." The John Birch Society has declared. "We believe that the president of the United States has been murdered by a Communist within the United States." Senator Goldwater, in a campaign speech, said that Kennedy's assassin had "a mind fed by communism." Abroad, the summary dispatch with which the Oswald case was closed, the fabrication of evidence by the Dallas police, and the killing of Oswald, have led many to suspect an elaborate rightist plot...
Like any other elderly party off to London for lunch at the club or a spot of Christmas shopping, the squire of Birch Grove boarded a first-class railway carriage at Haywards Heath station near his home in exurbanite Sussex. Curtained by the Times, he rode in upper-crust anonymity into London's Victoria Station, fumbled absentmindedly for his pass at the ticket barrier, and left the station on foot. His destination this time was not 10 Downing Street or Admiralty House, but 12 Catherine Place, where Harold Macmillan stayed last week with his son Maurice and daughter...