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Some questions of ethics will linger for a while, and not a few Senators wish that President Nixon had sent them another nominee. Indiana's Birch Bayh and other liberals are at work digging into possible new conflict charges. But the most determined of Haynsworth's opponents now expect that the Judiciary Committee, which may vote this week, will recommend confirming the appointment. Haynsworth may not have his Supreme Court seat in time for the Oct. 6 opening of the court's fall sitting, but even the opposition to his appointment believes that after a floor debate...
Conflict of Interest. The most damaging allegations, however, concerned the Appellate Court judge's failure to remove himself from cases in which he may have had a financial interest. Led by Indiana's Birch Bayh, liberal committee members charged Haynsworth with conflict of interest for not disqualifying himself from a 1963 trial involving the Textile Workers Union and a firm that did business with a vending-machine company in which he had a one-seventh interest...
...edge of a birch grove, four mounted outlaws try to stare down the aging lawman...
Filthy Plot. The Crusade's crusade was quickly taken up by the John Birch Society, whose founder, Robert Welch, decided that sex education was a "filthy Communist plot," akin to community fluoridation plans. So far, communities in 35 states have become embroiled in disputes over sex courses, inspired by such colorfully named parents' organizations as Sanity of Sex (S.O.S.), Parents Against Universal Sex Education (PAUSE), and the Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOREDE). Although the unsubtle hand of the Christian Crusade and the Birch Society can be detected in most of these groups, the campaign against sex education...
...career as a columnist ended in 1962 after he told a right-wing group in Tulsa that his Hearst bosses were censoring his columns in "a coercion as nasty and snarling as Hitler's." When Hearst, in effect, fired him, Pegler turned to writing for the John Birch Society journal, but quit when even Robert Welch rejected some of his articles...