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...There are thousands of supporters of Senator Goldwater who are not extremists, who don't belong to the John Birch Society, who are "responsible" Republicans, who are for the betterment of our country, and who are not trigger-happy imbeciles-contrary to what the "superior" Republicans and Democrats emit from their opinionated and twisted heads and tongues...
...JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY. He refuses to denounce it because "members of the Birch Society have a constitutional right to take the positions they choose, even though I might disagree with them...
...know of any more dedicated anti-Communist than Robert Welch," wrote Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing. "I unhesitatingly endorse his John Birch Society." That was in 1960. But times have changed-or so it seemed for a while last week. When he was told that two Birchers had gone on a New York radio program and inferred that he agreed with the tenet that Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy were Communists, the cardinal denied any such thing. "This retraction is long overdue," he announced. "I do not consider this society as an effective way of confronting the international conspiracy...
...patent of nobility from the Czar. The Ulyanovs were seemingly untouched by the vast, ancient and epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood. They swam in the Volga, hunted mushrooms in the birch woods, went ice skating and sleighing during the long winters. In the evenings, they bent over chessboards, sang around the piano, or played games invented by Vladimir with rules that he changed according to his whim. It was a habit he never lost...
...justifiable cause for caution among the Negroes has been the militant conservatism of St Augustine, where the John Birch Society is said to be strongly entrenched. Economic control of the Negro is gained by firing demonstrators. When the standard wage for domestics is $18 per forty-hour week (even a local judge democratically adheres to this norm), and few jobs open to Negroes pay more, it is hard for a Negro woman to make the decision to demonstrate. A certain political control is also attempted: before registering, Negro voters are asked "Do you enjoy your civil rights?" The expected answer...