Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admiral Byrd Dies...
BOSTON, March 11--Retired Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, USN, 68, the first man to fly over the North and South Poles, died peacefully in his sleep tonight at his Brimmer St. home...
...advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America...
Divorced. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born, Jamaica-schooled cinemactor (Carmen Jones) and jukebox favorite; by Psychologist Frances Marguerite Byrd Belafonte, 28; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Programs for lopping big chunks off that $72 billion are piling up. New Hampshire's Bridges suggests nicks and slashes adding up to a hefty $3.3 billion. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, working on his yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling...