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Some Senators and Congressmen grumbled that Administration officials, principally Treasury Secretary Miller, Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze, and Budget Director James Mclntyre, sought their ideas on what programs to cut rather than venturing proposals of their own. Administration officials, on the other hand, complained that Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia brought ever more Democratic Senators into the meetings, so that budgeteers had to go over the same ground again and again for the benefit of the newcomers...
...Administration also began meeting with congressional leaders. In a night session at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia suggested that Senate and House Democrats form teams to work with the Administration's policymakers in drawing up a unified set of budget reductions-in Byrd's words to TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, "a package with which we can walk the plank"-and then take it to the Republicans for their ideas. Both Acting Senate Minority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska and House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona brought groups of their followers...
...dispute: the badly battered reputation of Congress, tarnished by numerous recent cases of individual misconduct, had been dealt a major blow. "The institution has been hurt," conceded House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "I'm very disappointed, discouraged and shocked," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "I'm sick," declared Congressman Robert F. Drinan, who served on the Judiciary Committee that had voted in 1974 to impeach Richard Nixon. The actions of that committee were so impressive that 48% of Americans, according to a Gallup poll at the time, said that they approved of the way Congress...
...Vanguard and Columbia, while hardly rivaling the Boston Pops, have broken out of the confines of the specialized early-music market. In addition, they are moving into national television. They have video-taped four 20-minute recitals of music by such contemporaries of Shakespeare's as Dowland, Byrd and Weelkes, for inclusion in PBS's Shakespeare series starting this month. "The potential audience for this music goes far beyond even the usual classical audience," Jaffee insists. "It is immediate and unpretentious, with roots in popular traditions. People have gotten over the feeling that they need a Ph.D...
DIED. Henry Roeland Byrd, 61, legendary blues pianist also known as "Professor Longhair," whose recordings of the '40s and early '50s laid the groundwork for rock 'n' roll; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. Born in Bogalusa, La., Byrd taught himself to play the piano, imitating such barrelhouse blues players as Kid Stormy Weather. His Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Big Chief combined elements of blues, New Orleans marching music and Caribbean rhythms. Though he never matched the success of Fats Domino and others who popularized the Byrd piano style, recognition finally came...