Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Music by Byrd, Couperin, Bach Rossi, Handel, and Scariatti; Frances Fitch, harpsichord; Eliot Library; 8:30; free...
...draconian measures?" said one Senate aide. "There's no magic in a 1 million-bbl.-per-day oil cutback that would deflate the economy and shoot up unemployment. There has still been no coherent, clear explanation why we should put on this hair shirt." Said Democratic Whip Robert Byrd: "Let's take first things first-let's stop the recessionary slide, create jobs, cut taxes." Similar advice came from the citadel of conservative economic policy. Arthur Burns cautioned: "The President's program is so complicated that you could not in good conscience act quickly...
...Crimson out-skated the State team in the third period but did little scoring until the end of the game, when it scored three times in the last two minutes. With an assist from Ames Byrd, George completed his hat trick with 17 seconds on the clock...
Altered Account. While not arguing with Rockefeller's description of the book, his inquisitors were plainly concerned about the secrecy surrounding the project. Why, Byrd wanted to know, had the money behind the book been "laundered"? The Rockefeller name, not the money, had been laundered, replied the witness. The family feared that if it was discovered that they were backing the book, no one else would invest in it. Byrd wondered why that mattered since a mere $65,000 was involved-a sum easily raised by Rockefellers...
Pressing the attack, Byrd asked why Rocky had not come up with the true story sooner since he had been questioned twice by the FBI about the book. Rocky answered that he had been so busy gathering other information for investigators and for the press that he had overlooked the book. "I didn't realize it was the big deal it turned out to be." Not very satisfied, Byrd remarked that getting the truth piecemeal was "a throwback to what we have had over the past two years." Flustered for the only time, Rockefeller responded: "I have to bitterly...