Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LINDA L. BYRD Houston...
...ideas into sharp effect at the statehouse by turning a $71 million deficit into a $200 million surplus in four years, went on to become the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and a strong ally of its equally economy-minded chairman, Virginia's Harry Byrd; of a heart attack; in Washington...
BYRDLAND (Columbia). As one of the first importers of bossa nova, Charlie Byrd still likes to toss off a samba or two on his amplified guitar, and he can pluck soul from folk-blues like Work Song, but mostly he keeps up a sophisticated patter with pop hits (Theme from "Mr. Lucky") and old ballads (I'll Be Around...
First, Vinson lies 400 miles due east of remote Byrd Station, and only 600 miles from the South Pole. Second, Antarctica is racked by fierce (up to 90 m.p.h.) gales and covered with ice up to 14,000 ft. thick; the temperature, even in the middle of summer, can drop to -40°. Add to that the fact that no man had ever before set foot on the slopes of Vinson-and the laconic announcement from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound had to qualify as a masterpiece of understatement: "A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve...
Married. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 67, pioneering airman who flew Admiral Byrd on the 1928-30 Antarctica expedition, now a General Dynamics consultant; and Audrey Schipper, 44, market research director for Fairchild Publications; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...