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...rightists intend to figure in as many congressional campaigns as possible next year. California's Representative John Rousselot, a member of the John Birch Society, is talking of running for the Senate in the 1962 G.O.P. primary against Incumbent Thomas Kuchel. Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford has already begun to use far-right material in a buildup against Senator J. William Fulbright. Says Indiana's Clarence Manion onetime dean of Notre Dame Law School and a veteran anti-Communist lecturer and writer, who claims to have 350 Conservative Clubs in operation: "I've never seen anything like this...
...most formidable of the extremist groups is the John Birch Society (TIME, March 10. et seq.), founded three years ago by retired Massachusetts Candymaker (Welch's Fudge and Sugar Daddy) Robert Welch, 62. So suspicious that he often denounces shuffling or coughing in his audience as "a dirty Communist trick," Welch has a gift for such phrases as "Comsymp." which he uses as a label for many who disagree with him, and a talent for such slander as describing Dwight Eisenhower as "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." His causes are many: they range from a campaign against...
...resurgence of the ultras, several other organizations have begun to challenge the predominance of the John Birch Society. Among them...
...States' Rights ticket in 1960, believes that "socialist and Communist influence now pervades the thinking of our Federal Government and the two major political parties." He claims members in 45 states, distributes about half a million pamphlets a year, is an active, unit-founding member of the John Birch Society...
There was no freeing of closeted literary skeletons or butchering of local sacred cows. She mentioned the John Birch Society only in passing and alluded to Joe McCarthy (no relation) with a smile. What had happened to the fires of yesteryear? Only in the closing minutes of an unexpectedly academic talk on the novel did the trenchant moral critic emerge to express the full force of her contrary spirit...