Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DALLAS NEWS: TIME is short. The forces of conservatism in Washington are dwindling [to] men like Harry Byrd, [Barry] Goldwater. When they are gone, we all are gone...
...served one Senate term (1943-48) before he was elected in 1956 to fill out the term of the late Harley Kilgore, is a handsome grandfather, a tireless, bassoon-throated campaigner, a conservative flailing at apathetic Republican voters. His opponent is conservative, too, but fast-moving, breezy Robert C. Byrd, 40, father of two girls (aged 21 and 17), is hard to beat. A former grocer and three-term Congressman, he shrewdly turns on the corn at country meetings, singing and playing the fiddle (Bile Them Cabbages Down), recites inspirational poetry (God Give Us Men), advocates old-age pensions...
...served seven terms in Congress, is now a public-relations man for Capital Airlines, rates as one of the state's most effective speakers, has conservative Democratic backing. The Hoblitzell forces are despondent, and private polls agree that they should be. Republican Revercomb is hard pressed by Byrd...
...more radioactive since 1945, and in most categories of comestibles there is no slightest threat to health. So reported Dr. Edwin P. Laug and Chemist Wendell C. Wallace of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last week. Standard of comparison was a collection of old canned foods, e.g., from Admiral Byrd's caches in Antarctica (TIME, March 11, 1957). As expected, because fallout tends to concentrate on grass and thus get into browsing cows, there was some increase in radioactivity of milk and milk products. While this was so slight as to be no hazard now, Dr. Laug warned: "This...
...Pals. In Tuscumbia, Ala., Prisoner Herman Byrd cut through the jail wall on his second escape try in three weeks, left a note to Sheriff Raymond Wheeler: "Gone again, Raymond old buddy, I hate to do this but it looks like I have got to go. I hope to have better luck this time," clambered through his hole, surrendered to deputies who had heard him hacking away and were waiting on the spot...