Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three, four." Said Bell, with a dry smile: "Forty-five billion." The bigness of that number proved to be prophetic. As Budget Director, Bell regarded spiraling expenditures and gaudy deficits with a cheerfulness that enraged congressional conservatives. Last summer Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd called upon Kennedy to dismiss Bell because he lacked the "requirements of fiscal responsibility and discipline." Far from firing him, Kennedy counted Bell as one of his most valuable advisers...
Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, Byrd emerged bug-bitten almost to death (the Dismal Swamp's yellow fly, they still say, will politely lift a man's hat from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds...
...After Byrd came George Washington, who saw a chance to make a buck out of the bogs. Washington bought up a chunk of the swamp, organized a company called "Adventurers for Draining the Great Dismal Swamp," put slaves to work building a canal, which is still in use. It was profitless. Washington finally sold the land to Lighthorse Harry Lee for $20,000, but when Lee could not meet the payments, the property reverted to Washington and was sold with Washington's estate...
Glancing down the program again, I am impressed by the versatility of both groups. Their range extends from Vittoria motets and Byrd madrigals to Negro spirituals and German drinking songs, but it is just this extension that bothers me, and I suspect many others, as we sat for two and a half hours in Sanders listening to almost thirty separate numbers. They all were admirably performed but only a very few had much musical substance; the total effect cloyed with its emptiness as much as those long-play records of "gems from the classical repertoire." Now please don't dismiss...
...color is important to Oil Geologist D. Harold ("Dry Hole") Byrd, in whose two-acre Dallas garden Watson was putting the finishing touches on a $16,200 installation. The color is red. "See those three purple beeches," said Byrd to a visitor. "While the moonlight's going, I can throw a switch, and a series of powerful red lights plays on those tree trunks. I know Watson didn't care much for it. But I like red." Mr. Byrd's sharp eyes grew pensive. He said: "I'm trying to figure out some way to have...