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...palsy that he has taken up a new career as a physiotherapy aide at the Whitesburg Memorial Hospital in Kentucky. Remarkably erect Joan Harris, now 15, of Larchmont, N.Y., is doing well in school. The boy, 13, is as straight as a spruce, and supple as a birch...
...forgot the John Birch doll: wind it up and it points a finger...
...Republican minority in the state legislature, tuned his campaign to the G.O.P.'s right wing. "I've gotten sick and tired of calling people liberals when they're basically socialists.'' he said. Though not himself a member, Shell welcomed the endorsement of the John Birch Society. Nixon, in contrast, denounced the far-right-wing organization, called upon Republicans to get out of it. After the primary, news commentators called the outcome a "smashing victory on the comeback trail." But with 65% of the vote to Shell's 35%, Nixon had plenty to worry about...
...newsletter from Americans for Democratic Action, of which Beer is national chairman, charged that the hearings are a device to boost the stock of Rep. John Rousselot (R-Cal.). Rousselot will reportedly have trouble in the November elections because of his outspoken membership in the John Birch Society...
...Three of our constant companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic...