Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand why Kennedy made 1961 legislation weak," Rauh said, were threntened with a filibustor. in 1965 Byrd's asthma would keep from filibustering more than 20 minutes. We begged the attorney to make this bill as good as the President's speech but he wouldn...
...welfare system, under the unsympathetic guidance of Senator Byrd of West Virginia, is unrealistically harsh, one of the most ill-conceived in the country. As one particularly grim example, children of unemployed parents in the District, for reasons known only to God and the Senator, are denied benefits available to children of unemployed parents in states, including Senator Byrd's own West Virginia...
...such lapses in last week's Appomattox ceremonies, much to the dismay of an outfit called the North-South Skirmish Association, which sent 42 costumed emissaries. Instead of shenanigans, there was a band concert and an address by Virginia's Governor Atbertis Harrison Jr. Senator Harry F. Byrd was present, and so were Lee's great-grandson, Robert E. Lee IV, 40, national advertising manager of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Grant's grandson, retired Army Major General Ulysses S. Grant...
...Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...
...varsity plays Byrd Park Club in Richmond Saturday, and then splits up to face Presbyterian, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Clemson next week...