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Democrats, of course, play the reapportionment game, too. Victims of Democratic legislatures include Edgar Hiestand and John Rousselot, both California Republicans and members of the John Birch Society. These two were eliminated although they each represented almost a million constituents and, before 1962, won by large majorities. The legislature placed each of the Birchers' residences in smaller, more Democratic areas, and they were both defeated...
...greeted by an airport crowd of 300 sporting cowboy hats with the AuH.s0 symbol and signs inscribed, OUT WEST WE LIKE BARRY BEST, and he drew 5,000 with a speech at the city's new Coliseum. Arriving in San Francisco, Goldwater told newsmen that the John Birch Soci ety's latest attack on John F. Kennedy as a Communist dupe was "detestable," but he refused to disavow Birchite support. "The John Birch Society is far less of a menace to the U.S. than the Americans for Democratic Action or the U.A.W.," he said. "These are the people...
Comedy's End. Churchill has already announced that he will officially retire from politics when this Parliament is dissolved. Last week, at his Sussex home of Birch Grove, Harold Macmillan came to the same decision. "One doesn't want to hang around," he explained to newsmen and photographers. "I don't think it's very dignified. When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away." As the press conference broke up, Macmillan turned to his wife, Lady Dorothy, said, "La commedia e finita." He had boldly played the game...
President Kennedy's assassination was a direct result of the "international Communist conspiracy," Col. Laurence F. Bunker '26, U.S. Army (Ret.), a member of the John Birch Society's Advisory Council, told an International Student Association Forum last night...
...number of the bills call for Congress to elect a new vice-President when that office becomes vacant. A second group would have the President name a new vice-President. A proposed Constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) combines the best parts of these two proposals; Bayh's bill would have the President nominate a man, who would then have to be confirmed by Congress. This suggestion would avoid having Congress dictate its choice to the President; the need for Congressional confirmation provides a valuable cheek, on the President's decision...