Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although every Administration since (and including) that of F.D.R. has had its differences with Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, each has discovered that Byrd is no blind obstructionist and that his word is as solid as his beloved Blue Ridge back home. If Lyndon Johnson ever had any doubts about that, Byrd dispelled them last week by releasing the Administration's tax bill from his Senate Finance Committee as promised, even though he personally remains dead set against...
...President's aim was to convince Congress that his Administration will be frugal. As he revealed the big surprises of his speech, he stared straight out at such economy-minded legislators as Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck. The fiscal 1965 budget that Johnson will send to Congress next week, he said slowly and stressing every word, will "call for total expenditures of $97.9 billion-compared to $98.4 billion for the current year, a reduction of more than $500 million. It will call for new obligational authority of $103.8 billion -a reduction...
...that reason, President Johnson last week placed tax-cut legislation ahead of civil rights in the order of congressional business. And Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee stepped up its work on the tax bill. Among other things, it approved the two-step corporate income tax cut from 52% to 48% and dumped an Administration-sponsored, House-approved provision forbidding the deduction of state and local gas taxes, automobile-and driver-license fees from federal returns. Estimated annual revenue loss: $330 million. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson called for tax-cut passage...
...generally friendly competitors in Antarctica, freely lend each other equipment and food, pool weather information, even regularly exchange scientists. If Antarctica's scientists no longer undergo the fearful ordeals of earlier generations of explorers, they still pursue the same high ideal that impelled such heroes as Amundsen, Byrd and Scott. That quest, in the lines from Tennyson's Ulysses, was defined on the cross that stands in memory of Scott and his men, who died returning from the South Pole...
...spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. "I only hope," he said as he left, "that those whom I meet will be as happy to see me as I will be to see them...