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...much to overcome: he lost by nearly 17,000 votes to Los Angeles Councilman Edward Royhal, a liberal who plugged medicare. In a swirl of libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald Brooks Cameron...
...first name is Birch...
...chapter of the John Birch Society may be formed at Harvard next spring...
Indiana's Republican Sen. Homer Capehart finally went to defeat late yesterday morning after 18 years in the Senate. Capehart, who has repeatedly called for an invasion of Cuba, was overcome by Birch E. Bayh, minority leader in the Indiana legislature...
...only major contest Birch Bayh held a 10,000 vote lead early this morning and appeared to be headed for an upset victory over incumbent Republican Senator Homer Capehart...