Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shenandoah Valley glowed in autumn gold and scarlet last week. Virginia's venerable Senator Harry Flood Byrd puffed through a restless routine. Each morning Byrd, now 70, hurried out to the apple orchards around his home at Berryville, supervised the harvest. But each afternoon the Senator settled down at his telephone to pass out political orders that crisscrossed Virginia in anticipation of a different sort of harvest. On Nov. 5 the Old Dominion elects a governor. When it does, the organization through which Harry Byrd has ruled his state for more than a quarter-century expects to reap enough...
...dust-dry summer, Harry Byrd's apples are smaller than usual. But in the middle of an autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...
This year's Democratic Candidate J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 59, is stronger than Governor Stanley: he was an able Congressman and attorney general, won Byrd's grudging benediction for governor by starting early, shrewdly maneuvering other hopefuls out of contention. Nonetheless, Republican Ted Dalton had an outside chance against Almond because before Little Rock Dalton was talking sense about gradual integration and-to the quiet disgust of many Virginia Democrats-Almond was peddling the massive-resistance nonsense that Harry Byrd had decreed. Then the federal troops flew into Arkansas...
According to Virginia's never-say-buy Senator Harry Byrd, Congress whacked $6.5 billion off Ike's original spending-authority request of $73.3 billion. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson put the total at $5.9 billion. By the House Appropriations Committee's reckoning, it came to $4.9 billion. At his press conference, the President dismissed all these claims as "political." Congress' cuts, he said, "really" amounted to something "on the order of 900 million to a billion." The President's source for this surprising figure was his own Budget Bureau, which arrived...
...budget battle has died away, a university professor may wangle a Ford Foundation grant to figure out the score. If, with the help of half a dozen accountants and an electronic brain, he comes up with a fair and accurate estimate, it will be a lot smaller than Harry Byrd's $6.5 billion-and a lot bigger than Dwight Eisenhower's $1 billion...