Word: byrds
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This is how TIME correspondents last week rated the 48 states: Solid for Stevenson: The South is shrinking as a Democratic realm, but Adlai can depend on Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and despite an independent ticket favoring Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina...
...border Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia (all for Ike in 1952), the Democrats are ahead. (But in Virginia, continued silence on the part of Senator Harry Byrd could lose Stevenson his narrow edge...
Last week some Virginia legislators expressed private doubts as to whether the legal web they have spun will hold up for long. But if these bills fail, Virginia is quite ready to think up others. "Virginians," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "are deliberate, even slow, in coming to drastic measures to protect their rights under the federal constitution. But when they do, they are in for the duration...
...funds from any locality "whenever it is determined the public interest, or safety, or welfare so requires," i.e., whenever the schools desegregate. Only eight months ago, Governor Stanley had apparently endorsed the principle that local districts could desegregate if they wished. But since then, Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd had called for "massive resistance" to all integration. Last week Governor Stanley declared flatly: "There should be no mixing of the races in public schools, anywhere in Virginia...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...