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This is Gram Parsons. Gram Parsons went to Harvard. He is now a rock 'n' roll star. Our rock 'n' roll stars come easy, it seems (if he is one). But there is still a little room at the top. He is a part-time Byrd and full-time Flying Burritor Brother. You can find his name a couple of times in the credits on the Byrds' Sweatheart of the Rodeo album...
President Nixon's suggestion that "preventive detention" would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said...
...Yardlings won only two of nine matches in each weapon class. Pat Pugliese was Harvard's strong man, taking two victories in the sabre. Phil Rapoport and Gil Castle each won a contest in the foil giving Harvard two more points. In the epee class Pete Byrd and Eliot Hurwitz gained single victories for the freshmen. The Concord loss put the freshman record...
...rather than James Monroe, 1820; Preston Parks of Tennessee voted for Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman, 1948; W. F. Turner of Alabama voted for a circuit judge instead of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; Henry D. Irwin of Oklahoma ignored his pledge to Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd...
...boat be rocked when you have hold of the tiller"), the Senate Democratic leadership would consist of well-liked, if rather bland Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and three conservatives: Long, Georgia's Richard Russell, who was to be named president pro tempore, and West Virginia's Robert Byrd, who was to be retained as chairman of the Democratic Conference. Of the four, only Long was vulnerable...