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...Birch and Evergreens. Humphrey's illness reordered his life. He looks out over his four acres of waterfront land, dotted with birch and ash and evergreens that he planted as long as 20 years ago. His four children all live within 50 miles. "Why does a man stay in politics?" Humphrey asks...
After his convention victory, Democratic presidential nominee Birch Bayh announces that he wants Lester J. Centennial of Pocatello, Idaho, as his running mate. "I realize he's not exactly a household name," Bayh tells reporters, "but I just couldn't resist...
Harris must make a substantial showing in the early primaries or he will probably be finished. In the preprimary skirmishes, the results have been ambiguous. At the convention of the liberal New Democratic Coalition in Manhattan this month, he came in second and prevented Front Runner Senator Birch Bayh from winning the endorsement. In a caucus held by Massachusetts' Citizens for Participation in Political Action, a liberal group, he came in first. But he won only 38.7% of the vote after lobbying members for almost a year...
WITH SIX of its eleven original sponsors in the Senate Judiciary Committee, S.1 stands a fairly good chance of being reported out of committee with just a few amendments. Some senators, like Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) an original sponsor who has withdrawn support for the bill in its current form, say that with a few amendments the bill could be a good one. But it is probably closer to the truth to estimate, as does the American Civil Liberties Union, that only after about 2600 amendments would S.1 be palatable. Once the bill hits the Senate floor, the tedious legal...
...John Birch Society and other conspiracy theorists of world history have accomplished at least a consciousness-raising exercise. They were the first to point with alarm at the international power of multinational corporations. They opposed intervention in South Vietnam, arguing that such action was designed by the Communist Conspiracy embedded in the US government to waste American resources in a fruitless cause, to create instability in the American economy, and to divide and polarize American society...