Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first out; after shaking hands with the men who had come from the huts to greet him, he unloaded his gear from the plane. At this two-mile-high U.S. base at the South Pole, Paul Siple (who first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from the antarctic some of its best-kept secrets...
...William Byrd & His Age (Alfred Deller; Basel's Wenzinger Consort of Viols; Vanguard). Music from the golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...
...Harry Byrd's segregation program has met opposition even within his organization. Says Byrd-dogging Political Leader William Lee Prieur Jr. of industrial, Navy-base Norfolk: "After the program came out, I got the Norfolk legislators in here, and we agreed we just couldn't go along. I called Harry Byrd and I said, 'You're wrong on this. We can't support you.' He said, 'The people of Virginia will never accept desegregation. I'm going to resist this as long as I can.' " Says Norfolk's Democratic Mayor...
Towards Yesterday. Tragically, the Byrd program has hurt most what Harry Byrd is trying to protect: the education of Virginia's children. Construction of needed school facilities is lagging badly; school boards are hard put to find buyers willing to invest in Virginia's confusion...
...been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed...