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...Storke's own unpredictable, irascible opinions. When California's controversial School Superintendent Max Rafferty was attacking the Dictionary of American Slang, the NewsPress castigated Rafferty roundly, only to reverse its stand overnight after Storke was shown a list of dirty words from the book. When the John Birch Society moved into Santa Barbara, it roused no visible opposition from the News-Press-until the Birchers had the temerity to attack Storke's close friend Earl Warren. That move provoked an angry series of News-Press articles and a front-page Storke editorial that won him a Pulitzer...
...Revilo P. Oliver, professor of classics at the University of Illinois, that "his first name is his last name spelled backward because he doesn't know if he's coming or going."* A competent Latin and Greek scholar, Oliver is a national officer of the John Birch Society. In recent issues of American Opinion, the Birch magazine, he published, under the title "Marxmanship in Dallas," the most elaborate version yet of the diehard "plot" theory of the Kennedy assassination. The Communists executed the President, says Oliver, intending to blame ultrarightists and trigger "a domestic takeover." Not that Oliver...
...Senators Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) and George McGovern (D.S.D.), Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Assistant Secre- tary of State Averill W. Harriman, Archibald Cox '34, Solicitor General, and David Bell, Director of the Agency for International Development, will definitely address the group...
...town-splitting controversy are School Superintendent Fred C. Nus and Housewife Elberta Gilderbloom, a former teacher whom Nus once turned down for a job. Mrs. Gilderbloom ran for the school board, won, and last fall helped elect two ultraconservative members, including one who says he sympathizes with the John Birch Society. The three dominate the five-member board, and Nus says Mrs. Gilderbloom told him: "If I can't work under you, then you won't work under...
Whatever the outcome, not all Pleasantville teachers agree that quitting is the best way to handle "unbearable working conditions." Says History Teacher Hazel M. Flora: "If the Birch Society is here, then the place for me is right here in school-teaching American history to my students...