Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...
...laboriously won. . . ." An Alumni Bulletin survey proclaimed that Harvard men had written 308 books between June and December, and the Harvard Medical School celebrated its 150th anniversary with an address in Sanders Theatre from President-Emeritus Lowell. The Geographical Laboratory was getting daily messages from Rear Admiral Byrd in Little America, and President Conant had the 7 o'clock ringing of the bells discontinued in the Yard, while the College's then-most-famous-graduate was quoted as saying from Washington that he would sooner see his name conferred on a baby than on Lowell House's carillon...
Criticism from Congress. With that a large part of hell broke loose on Capitol Hill. Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd let it be known that the Internal Revenue Service would answer to the Senate if it allowed the tax exemptions for contributions toward Castro tractors, and Byrd is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has a lot to say about such things. By the dozens, Senators and Representatives arose to denounce the bargain. Among the most effective speeches was one by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. Said he: "Our national concern...
...Byrd in Flight: Donald Byrd (Blue Note). Byrd has two voices: he can jab out his message with agility, brilliance and exuberance, or he can build in long, open-throated lines, as expansive as any now coming from a trumpet. Both are well served here in such numbers as Little Boy Blue and his own composition...
Unsurprisingly, the reaction of Virginia's white leaders was loud and clear. "The gallant little county," cried Senator Harry Byrd, "is fighting against great odds to protect a principle it believes to be right." Governor J. Lindsay Almond sought to reassure Virginians that Attorney General Kennedy was not trying to close all schools in the state, but only to reopen Prince Edward County's schools...