Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone was most cordial. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell set the tone for the session: "I understand from Senator Byrd that you are a Virginia boy." U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers, making his first public appearance since his release from captivity in the Soviet Union, smiled back. Then, in a soft drawl, he told his story. Committee members asked a few gentle questions, and sent him on his way with their paternal blessings. It was all over in 90 minutes...
...cargo. It has flown in prefabricated huts to protect its Antarctic team from the bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations. The reactors will not only pay for themselves through savings on fuel (which costs 50 times as much as in the U.S. when flown into Antarctica), but will make possible research requiring big amounts of electric power and eventually open up the continent for flying through the long...
...National Science Foundation is setting up an elaborate camp in Marie Byrd Land to study the strange magnetic ducts that arch through space and carry radio waves between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. > The U.S., Britain and Russia are leading a smooth-running Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, which is already working out plans for securing valuable weather data in the international "quiet sun" year in 1964-65. Expected to be of great help: the U.S. Tiros satellites...
Speaking at the Law School Forum. James J. Kilparick, editor of the Richmond News Leader and ally of the Byrd forces in Virginia, said that, while Southerners declare themselves to be conservatives, "when he money is being passed our we are right there at the through asking for our share...
...other liberal on the program, Armistead Boothe, Virginia state senator who is considered the leader of the anti-Byrd forces, agreed with Carter. He called the massive resistance laws "the greatest tragedy through which Virginia has passed in the twentieth century...