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...emergence of a viable moderate opponent to the conservative Byrd machine for the Virginia governorship this summer was not terribly startling. He would fit into the old mold if the Organization couldn't win the election. There was a third candidate for governor-but most political observers considered...
...July primary, the two candidates sent the conservative Byrd machine, which has controlled the state's politics for half a century, down to a humiliating defeat. Lieutenant Governor Fred Pollard, the Organization's candidate for governor, managed to garner only 23 per cent of the votes in the election, and a new populists' revolt...
...Chicago has worked harder to break the city's pattern of segregation than General Schools Superintendent James Redmond. He has appointed a black deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd Jr., whom he is grooming as his successor, and recently named a black district superintendent and a black principal to serve in nearly all-white areas. But most of Redmond's more ambitious plans have run into solid opposition from white parents and teachers alike. His attempts to promote pupil integration by bussing were beaten down by a coalition of militant Polish and Irish voters. Efforts to achieve greater faculty integration...
...think it's isolationism to oppose excessive military spending." Some Democratic Senators were more abrupt. Said Albert Gore of Tennessee: "It sounded like the old Nixon I used to know." But Nixon won support from Louisiana's Russell Long and Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. Noted Byrd: "I think he said some things which needed to be said...
...object lessons let us tune in the dressing room of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers at the Boston Teaparty last weekend. The Burrito Brothers are a group of ex-Byrds and associates who travel with the Byrds and play on their albums sometimes. There are four Byrds now. Only one of them is an original Byrd; that is Jim McGuinn, who changed his first name to Roger because he thought it was a better name. The other three Byrds are more or less new, at least not original...