Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Virginia, former State Senator Armistead L. Boothe announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary against Senator Harry F. ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, appointed last fall as interim successor to his aging father. An eloquent Alexandria attorney and former Rhodes Scholar, Boothe, 58, won 45% of the Old Dominion's Democratic primary vote in an unsuccessful 1961 try for the lieutenant-governorship, in 1964 supported Lyndon Johnson, while the Byrds followed a policy of "golden silence." Harry Jr.'s situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other...
...Senate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey swore in the only new mem ber: Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, a ringer for his famous father, who resigned in November be cause of ill health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio...
...Jobs. In the Senate, all eyes will be on Democratic Whip Russell Long of Louisiana, who is scheduled to become chairman of the Finance Committee in place of Virginia's Harry Byrd, who resigned from the Senate in November because of ill health. Long will be the first man in memory to hold both jobs, but Senate friends say that he has his eye on yet another job: the Senate majority leadership, now held by Montana's unassertive Mike Mansfield. "We all love Mike," says one Democratic Senator, "but many of us don't like...
That was enough to get the Bills' goat. "Beating San Diego is the biggest thing in my life," gritted Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, who was a Charger until Coach Sid Gillman let him go for the waiver price of $100. Bills Defensive Back Butch Byrd also had a personal score to settle with Charger End Don Norton, who boasted publicly that he could beat Byrd on passes any time he wanted to. Byrd not only covered Norton like a blanket (Norton caught only one pass all afternoon), he also ran a punt back 74 yds. for Buffalo...
Just as Virginia's Senator Harry ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, was settling comfortably into the handsome, five-room office suite that he'd inherited along with Papa Byrd's title last month, in stalked Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, 65. The senior Senator prowled through the Virginian's homestead, admired the view of the Capitol, and then announced that he would foreclose the mortgage. "I'd like to have the office," rumbled Morse, who stands on the eighth rung from the top in Senate seniority and can claim nearly any office he chooses...