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Home of John Birch Society...
...were soon briefed on the city's more relevant distinctions. Indianapolis is the site of the American Legion's National Headquarters; the home of the John Birch Society; and a few weeks earlier the Ku Klux Klan had received a permit for a full-dress parade down the main street. Not quite the peace candidate's territory...
Occasionally the far Right comments. One Birch Society member declared that fluoridation was "a prot to sterilize the population," and another explained that by accustoming the people to mass medication, the government could demand that everyone report for vaccinations on the eve of a Communist invasion and then inject deadly air bubbles into the veins of all American patriots...
...Miss Watson is by far the most respected faculty member. Shaw students, who are used to her birch-rod style of teaching, admire this woman who, they say, "makes us work...
...Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty pole, on which a thousand bright flags are flying...