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...Byrd is on his way home, car rying a heavy briefcase...
Besides, for Byrd, food is merely fuel, though he does confess an uncontrollable weakness for chocolate-covered cherries...
...Sundays the couple often goes out for dinner, and after the meal Byrd may light up a cigar (a Montecristo or a La Corona...
...majority leader has never had many chances to get used to frills. Indeed, Robert C. Byrd did not even begin life as Robert C. Byrd. Born in North Wilkesboro, N.C., he was named after his father, Cornelius Calvin Sale, a furniture factory worker earning $5 a week; but his mother died during the flu pandemic of 1918, just before his first birthday. Her last wish: that Cornelius Jr., the youngest of five children, be raised by Sale's sister and her husband, the Byrds, who moved to Stotesbury, W. Va., when he was four. Renamed and unaware that...
...Byrd graduated at the top of his high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...