Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller," Byrd broke in, "you can answer my question with one word, yes or no, and I'll be satisfied. Can you separate the interests of big business from the national interest when they differ...
When Senate Majority Whip Robert Byrd rose to accept the West Virginia Broadcasters Association Distinguished Achievement Award last week, guests at the staid Greenbrier resort expected the standard political speech. Instead, Byrd picked up a violin and to his own accompaniment let loose with a few choruses of Old Joe Clark. "He's no violinist, but he's a damn good fiddle player," judged Association President Bob Brown after Byrd's performance. Actually, Byrd began his music career as a boy back in Stotesbury, W. Va., and began using the violin on the campaign trail to draw...
Assassination Plot. Thomas tells this startling tale with style through the journals of one Lovatt Frazier, a young Highlander who is wounded at Quebec, and then in Virginia joins Prince Charlie's court. Frazier has a gift for language ("Colonel Byrd, a man of vast parade") and a sharp eye for cracks in fine facades ("It seems that Mr. Randolph would declare for King James if only the King would then make nun comfortable in the office of attorney general"). The diarist, it develops, had the rare good luck to overhear a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Colonel George Washington...
Even before the Judiciary Committee had voted on the second and third articles of impeachment, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate met in Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's office. After the meeting, Mansfield, together with Minority Leader Hugh Scott and Democratic and Republican Whips Robert Byrd and Robert Griffin, announced that the Senate Rules Committee would review existing impeachment trial rules...
Souther, Hillman and Furay, are at Tufts Thursday night at 8. They're a new band, part of the constantly regrouping L.A. good-vibes country-rock scene. Chris Hillman is an ex-Byrd, Richie Fruay an ex-Poco and J.D. Souther an ex-producer and solo artist. Like most superstar bands with names that remind you of law firms, Souther, Hillman and Furay will probably split up after a record or two--so catch them while they last...