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...twelve-page editorial, titled "If You Want It Straight," in his own American Opinion magazine, the John Birch Society's founder and presiding genius, Robert Welch, last week managed to blame everyone but himself and his organization for Barry Goldwater's overwhelming electoral defeat...
...have included some enemies posing as friends," said Welch, and because he ran "an old-fashioned political campaign which was as unrealistic in our present circumstances as using horse-drawn watercarts to put out a forest fire." If Goldwater had campaigned along lines adhering more closely to the John Birch Society's tenets, said Welch, he might have lost anyhow, but at least he would have contributed a little something to the "continuous, massive educational program that simply has to be carried out as the only chance of saving our own country from the great danger of Communist enslavement...
Shrout was not the only surprise for Harvard freshman coach Benn Merritt. Alan Birch churned to a first in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:15, a race from which Merritt expected only third. Merritt also credited Rich Tompkins and Peter Alter with good performances under pressure. The Crimson's iron men against Army were Shrout, Peter Adams, Steve Coy, and Phil Chase, each of whom swam two events and then combined to form the relay tearn that decided the meet in the final race...
...against Birch, Barry and Bob," Young would say. "Goldwaterism, Taft Juniorism and extremism are all the same commodity." There was one other major factor: organized labor's thirst for revenge against the son of the man who co-sponsored the Taft-Hartley...
...spokesman for the nation's 3,500,000 Episcopalians is known to Texans as a "layman's bishop." Although his diocese is largely conservative in both politics and theology, Hines outspokenly supported racial integration in public schools; he has also angered many laymen by denouncing the John Birch Society and other groups on "the radical right." In 1961, after defending the right of California's maverick Bishop James A. Pike to describe the virgin birth as a myth, Hines withstood criticism with his usual equanimity. "A bishop," he shrugs, "is the lightning rod of the ecclesiastical heavens...