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With four sophomores in the starting linup, Columbia has already plunked Rutgers in the mulligatawney, 85-75, as Juan Mitchell pumped through 26 points. The back court tandem of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd has been clicking for 20.3 and 10 points a game respectively...
...Senate, the Democratic battle for majority leader is of immense importance to the Carter program. The majority leader usually sets the tone and acts as spokesman for Senate Democrats. Leading in this race is Senate Whip Robert Byrd, 58, of West Virginia, a conservative turned moderate. A skillful technician who has parceled out many favors in his six years of running the day-to-day operations of the Senate, Byrd is thought to have 29 votes already lined up-three shy of a majority of the 62 Democrats in the upper chamber...
...aggressive, articulate "new" Southerner, Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings, 54, is thought to trail with 15 or so votes. Currently bringing up the rear with perhaps a dozen votes is Hubert Humphrey, 65, who used to preside over the Senate as Vice President. All three would be Carter loyalists, though Byrd and Hollings would probably be less assertive in dealing with the White House than Humphrey. Partly because of concern about his health, partly because his opponents have worked hard to store up lOUs for this vote, Humphrey, still recovering from a recent cancer operation, is given relatively little chance of winning...
Despite his self-confident assertiveness, it was clear back on the Talmadge estate that the President-elect was soliciting help and advice. Among those present were the men vying for the job of majority leader of the Senate-Favorite Robert Byrd and Hubert Humphrey -and the retiring leader, Mike Mansfield, plus the influential Edmund Muskie. Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, certain to be House Speaker, was there with four key chairmen: Appropriations' George H. Mahon, Ways and Means' Al Ullman, Budget's Brock Adams and James J. Delaney, probable new Rules head...
Even number five is the Sunday matinee with Donald Byrd and his Blackbyrds, Grover Washington and Webster Lewis. This youth movement should be taken with a skeptical glance. Byrd simply is not that good a trumpeter; Washington does not play that good a sax. Lewis is solid...