Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wellesley Chamber Singers take a shot at Byrd, Britten, Tallis, and Palestrina. Dunster Library...
...politicians are willing to take on Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd Jr. Byrd is running as an independent, no Republican is challenging him, and several Democrats have dropped out. That leaves the field open to Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), former Chief of Naval Operations, who will announce his candidacy on the Democratic ticket in a few weeks...
Zumwalt has been making news not by lambasting Byrd but by launching a flanking attack on a personal target-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He accuses Kissinger of "lying in his teeth" when the Secretary soft-pedaled violations of nuclear arms agreements by the U.S.S.R., of running "a secret, Metternichian policy that seeks to mislead, not to lead, and of "creating peace in our time by pushing disaster into our children's future." The Admiral's assault seems an odd political tactic since Byrd, also a supporter of the Pentagon, has not taken any stand for or against...
...Class Day Committee invites Senator Robert Byrd to speak at Commencement after the seniors' first two choices, Ambassador George Bush and Nguyen Van Thieu, both decline. "Let me put it this way," says Class Day chairman Ron Wade, "The Senator is no prize, but a Byrd in hand is worth Thieu and Bush...
...group" is a comfortable array of friends, mostly old with a few new -Folksinger Joan Baez, ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn, Nashville Star Ronee Blakley and even Poet Allen Ginsberg. "We were all very close," Dylan told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "We had this fire going ten years ago, and now we've got it burning again...