Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed and themselves home for Christmas, Senators dropped an amendment sponsored by Delaware Republican William Roth to give parents a $250 tax credit for each son or daughter enrolled in college. Roth finally bowed to intense pressure, much to the relief of Republican Leader Howard Baker, Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long. Said Roth: "I fought the good fight, but there will be another...
Columbia should threaten for the Ivy title once again as Tom Penders has Ricky Free, Juan "the Enforcer" Mitchell, and 5-ft., 8-in. assist kingpin Alton Byrd back in uniform. Center Elmer Love decided to take the year off and will be replaced by Ed Shockley, who spent last season recovering from leg surgery for varicose veins...
Following its founding in 1892 by a lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from...
...standing ovation from his colleagues and from the overflowing galleries continued while Hubert Humphrey moved vigorously around the chamber, greeting friends, among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship...
...Byrd spoke for all when he said, "Nothing that life has dealt him has ever dimmed his optimism or quenched his unquenchable spirit." Even in his present struggle, Humphrey seemed buoyant; his cheeks were sunken, but his famous smile was bigger than ever; gaunt shoulders, even though they failed to fill his tweed jacket, were defiantly straight...