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...powerful Philadelphia family that controls Sun Oil and chairman of that company's executive committee; in Ardmore, Pa. He took over the firm in 1912, when he succeeded his father, Sunoco Founder Joseph N. Pew, as president. Though for a time a supporter of the John Birch Society, his penchant for privacy made him one of the nation's least-known industrial giants...
...letter, published yesterday in the Congressional Record by Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). maintains that Rehnquist is outside "the central stream of contemporary constitutional thought" on issues of individual liberty and civil rights...
Drinan mentioned to DiCara that he might be interested in a bill that Drinan is co-sponsoring with Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) to lower the age requirement for congressmen from 25 to 22. DiCara...
...there are too many candidates competing in an uncertain situation for any of the high rollers to empty their wallets this early. In his brief, six-week run for the nomination, Fred Harris had been able to raise only $160,000 when he quit because he was bankrupt. Birch Bayh, before he dropped out of contention when his wife became ill, reportedly received $150,000 from Milton Gilbert, former chief executive of the Gilbert Flexi-Van Corp., and $50,000 or more from at least three other backers. Of the remaining candidates, active or otherwise, only...
...compassion for blacks and other minorities" and one who "believes in unchecked Executive power, whether it is security wiretapping or the surveillance of individuals." Rauh's testimony was so vitriolic that when he intimated that Rehnquist had failed to disavow any "connections" with societies similar to the John Birch Society, Rauh was sharply rebuked by Senator Kennedy. (The false report of the nominee's Birch membership came from the Associated Press, and had already been scotched when Mississippi Senator James Eastland, chairman of the committee, presented an affidavit from Rehnquist disclaiming any such membership...