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...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...
Predictably, the Society warned that the party "must unequivocally disassociate itself from the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups." And equally predictably, the Society had to pay homage one sentence later to the fact that the Republican party is still the party of conservatives: "At the same time all Republican spokesmen would do well to distinguish clearly and publicly between irrational and irresponsible extremist elements and the millions of radonal, responsible and traditional conservatives who comprise a large segment of Republican voting strength...