Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a dozen players sign pro football contracts in the past five years. The 1963 team gave the AFL Butch Byrd, All-Pro defensive back for the Buffalo Bills, and Bill Budness, star linebacker of the San Diego Chargers...
...VIRGINIA U.S. SENATOR (4 years) Byrd (D)* (winner) Traylor (R) U.S. SENATOR (6 years) Spong (D) (winner) Ould (R) U.S. House (10): +2 Republican...
...summer of 1965, two Fort Worth gas-station attendants reported that a couple of Negro gunmen had robbed them of $3,000 in broad day light. Not until a month later did the city's undermanned police force pick up a suspect. Then Negro Truck Driver Ervin Byrd, 33, was nabbed on an anonymous tip. Though he loudly pro tested his innocence, the cops were satisfied, and the victims quickly picked Byrd out of a lineup...
...fact, Byrd was totally innocent: his accusers had pocketed their employer's cash; they admitted their crime after flunking a lie-detector test given by the oil company. After they made up the loss, the company filed no charges, and no one notified the police. Byrd, unable to make bail, stayed in jail for almost six months, vainly pleading for a session with a lie-detector test himself. Not until last Jan. 31 did the prosecutor finally permit the test, which the truck driver passed with flying colors; not until last month did the police finally erase Byrd...
Died. Harry Byrd, 79, ex-U.S. Senator from Virginia; of a brain tumor; in Berryville, Va. (see THE NATION...