Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city that reared it, made it rich, sucked it dry, threw it aside -and now, in a stroke of historical irony, seems to have given it one of its biggest revitalizations ever. For nine days, some 62 all-stars and more than 500 sidemen-from Duke Ellington to Charlie Byrd, from Dizzy Gillespie to Roberta Flack, from Eddie Condon to Sonny Rollins-wailed through 30 concerts in eleven various settings (range: 300 seats to 32,000). When it was all over, more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total of $500,000 to listen to a music that...
Similarly, on TV's Issues and Answers, he allowed that he might look with favor upon the nomination of Senator Robert Byrd to the Supreme Court, despite the conservative record of the West Virginian, who is antibusing. Next day McGovern retracted the statement. His present stand is that he is "sympathetic to parents who are concerned about their children being sent to inferior schools" and that he "wouldn't be distressed" if the Supreme Court ordered lower courts to "back off" from extensive busing directives in metropolitan areas. He nonetheless still believes that busing is an "important tool...
TRED AFTER TWO NIGHTS of communal snoring on the hard floors of one Union Methodist Church, the Harvard students retreated from Capitol Hill after the Byrd vote late Tuesday afternoon...
...STUDENTS continued to lobby until Tuesday afternoon, when the amendment was called to vote. The waiting line for the Senate Gallery contained an odd assortment of people. The vote on the Byrd Amendment was scheduled for 2 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. a recess was called in order to see the Apollo 14 astronauts during their tour of Washington. Because of the crowds, visitors to the gallery were only allowed to stay for fifteen minutes. Timing was essential--one student overcompensated and at 1:55 p.m. was shuttled out of the gallery. He spotted a friend in the line...
When the final vote was in, the Byrd Amendment had passed, 443. As disappointed students began to file out of the gallery. Senator Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) immediately took the floor and introduced a new amendment cutting off funds to Indochina. Unfortunately, the language of the bill was such that no one could quite understand it. In one portion of the gallery, ten people stood up and called out, "God speed, end the war," before leaving. The president of the session called for order. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) stood up, interrupting Mansfield, and denounced further introduction...