Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like no contest at all: a dour conservative from West Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
What makes Byrd the likely successor to Montana's patient, low-keyed Mike Mansfield, now retired after 16 years in the post? Hardly a popular Senate member or even a "Club" insider, Byrd has made the Senate work. He has labored relentlessly and generally with fairness to satisfy the whims and needs of his fellow Democrats. During his six years as majority whip, Byrd has stayed on the floor through long dreary hours, rounding up Senators for an important vote or delaying action on a bill when a legislator was on a campaign tour, a junket or simply a binge...
Hard-Earned Favors. Byrd won a Senate term in 1958 after six years in West Virginia state politics and six more in the U.S. House. With his seat securebills favored by labor unions, and doling out some of his unused campaign money to liberal as well as conservative Democrats. In 1967, he took over the obscure and little-wanted post of secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference. Byrd quickly ingratiated himself with the majority whip, Louisiana's Russell Long, who then was drinking heavily and neglecting his duties. Soon Byrd was doing Long's errands and collecting lous. After...
...play in the Ivy League is competitive with any in the nation. Penders recruits as if he were waging holy war and has come up with two of the most exciting young players in the Ivies in sophomore Ricky Free and high flying, 5 ft. 8 in. Alton Byrd...
...Byrd was voted MVP in the Poinsetta after scoring 25 points with 13 assists against Furman in the final, while Free carded 29 points. Against The Citadel Bulldogs, soph Kevin Donohue, who shattered all of Bill Bradley's Missouri high school scoring records, hit 11 of 19 shots from the field...