Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whose Constitution? Though the Gray plan may eventually be knocked down in court, Virginia showed every indication that it would continue the fight. "We are in for a long-drawn-out struggle," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "and may have to shift strategy from time to time." But whatever strategy the South uses, it has now confronted the country with a major legal issue. Is the U.S. Constitution, as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes put it, "what the judges say it is"? Or is it what it was when the states first ratified it in the generally accepted belief that...
...president of Harvard. He will discuss a merger with the Ford Foundation. The Board of Overseers declare that there are no plans for further expansion but Curtice will say "Harvard grows with the nation." The Divinity School will attack Bingo, while Bundy is sent to help Admiral Byrd...
...devise strategy for evading the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation order, Virginia's Governor Thomas B. Stanley appointed a legislative commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray, a dependable cog in U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic Party organization. The Gray Commission hammered out a compromise designed to head off integration in communities that oppose it, and permit it in others. Even so, the plan was meeting unexpected opposition. Reason: quite apart from its cautious sabotage of the Supreme Court order, many Virginians thought the Gray plan might wreck their public-school system...
...Harvard Freshmen exhibited a well-blended tone, from pianissimo to forte, in three of Brahma' Liebeslieder Waltzer. At fortissimo, however, the tone sometimes became a little heavy and unmusical, as in Godiam la Pace from Mozart's Idomenco. Conductor Allan D. Miller trained his singers beautifully for Byrd's three-voice canon Non Nobis Domine; the performance was clear-cut and well balanced...
...asked about the mystery of his aversion to capital letters. Said he precisely: "i use capitals ONLY for emphasiis. after all, that's what they were invented for, weren't they?" On departing to join "Operation Deepfreeze," his fifth Antarctic expedition, lean Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 67, unwarily recalled: "No woman has ever set foot on Little America . the most silent and peaceful place in the world." By the time he reached Dallas on his way to New Zealand, lady pickets awaited him. In high good humor, they waved signs protesting his womanless haven. Explorer Byrd...