Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geological laboratory was getting regular messages from Admiral Byrd in Little America those days, but the focal point of interest in world affairs was Germany rather than Antarctica. Incidents involving Ernst Hanfstaengl '09, the Nazi government's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the times. Hanfstaengl was chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard, by offering a $1000 scholarship for a College student to use at a German university. The Corporation turned...
...sure is. Byrd is personally fond of Kennedy: "He's a very attractive person. He's got ability. No question about that." But as a pay-as-you-go Democratic conservative, Byrd is unalterably opposed to many of Kennedy's big-spending, big-Government programs. And as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Byrd can give the Administration fits...
...Play. Byrd's committee must pass on three of the New Frontier's most important measures-medical care, foreign trade and tax revision. In similar circumstances, many committee chairmen would simply pigeonhole at least a couple of the bills in committee. But Byrd does not play that way. "You haven't agreed with me at times," Kennedy recently told Byrd, "but at least you haven't tried to bottle anything...
...Byrd does fight is by prestige and persuasion. He is opposed to the Administration's medical care program, but he is not worrying too much about it; he assumes it will be held over by the House Ways and Means Committee (TIME, June 1). He is a longtime advocate of liberalized foreign trade, but he has not yet made known his views about the particulars of the Administration bill. He is dead set against much of the President's tax-revision plan, especially the provision that would require businesses and banks to withhold a tax on dividends...
That being the case, Byrd is determined that his committee will study the tax bill hard-and slowly. He recently insisted that the entire 254-page bill be read twice aloud to the committee. But even the New Frontiersmen admit that Harry Byrd, 74, is playing well within the rules. Last month Byrd could easily have got a committee vote against the proposed withholding tax. "He could have ruined us," says a White House official. "But he didn't. Why not? Because to do it then would have been to force a vote after only the most nominal sort...