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Nixon took Indiana as a Wallace challenge never developed. Incumbent Sen. Birch Bayh, a Democrat, had trouble overcoming William Ruckelshaus. Ruckelshaus moved out early but faded to lose by four per cent...
...subsequently proved to be one of the great school and church builders of American Catholicism. Affectionately human and totally unpredictable, Cushing was, more importantly, a pioneer ecumenicist in the open style of Pope John, a maverick prelate who found it possible, at various times, to endorse both the John Birch Society and the N.A.A.C.P. In poor health for many years-and, at 73, only two years away from the age limit suggested for episcopal resignations by Pope Paul-Cushing had good reason to ask to be relieved of duty. The Pope is said to have a high regard for Cushing...
...Senate contests need not be looked on as outlets for the expression of anti-war sentiment only. Several candidates, like J. William Fulbright (Ark.) and Wayne Morse (Ore.), merit support despite erratic domestic records, and several others, like Leroy Collins (Fla.) and Birch Bayh (Ind.) merit the same despite weak Vietnam stands...
...stands, and he has always stood, as the apostle of the politics of fear and racism," cried the Vice President. "Some of his political managers and even some of his presidential electors are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils, the John Birch Society, the armed Minutemen, or groups dedicated to the promotion of anti-Semitism." Humphrey was just warming up. He called Wallace a demagogue and compared him to Hitler. "He has sought to inflame fear, frustration and prejudice," he said. "He pretends to be the friend of the workingman...
...Saved!" shouted Joan Kennedy at the press conference. "I have a feeling I came at the right time," said Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners...