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Spong, who lives in Portsmouth, rose to prominence as the leader of the urban bloc in Virginia's General Assembly. For 30 years the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But within the last 10 years a band of moderates, consisting of representatives from Richmond, the urban areas of Northern Virginia, and Tidewater cities like Norfolk and Portsmouth has sprung up between the two extremes in the party...
...After the war, he studied law at the University of Virginia and at the University of Edinburgh. In 1954 he won election to the state's House of Delegates and two years later entered the State Senate. While he was in the Senate, he earned acclaim even from the Byrd people for a four-year study of the state's public education system...
...bold new era in the state's politics. He has worked as conscientiously as everyone expected--his large, cheerful, busy staff is most unusual for a Virginian serving in Washington--but on 83 per cent of the Senate votes he has agreed with the state's senior Senator, Harry Byrd...
...students insist that the best clue to the existence of a gut is a disproportionate enrollment of "jocks" (athletes), "Freddys" (fraternity men), "Sallys" (sorority sisters) and "mungs" (beatniks). Stanford's jocks are urged by Athletic Director Charles Taylor to take Health Education 400, in which Professor Oliver E. Byrd grades solely on the number of abstracts of articles in medical journals his students turn in -and he tells them how many abstracts will make an A. He has abolished examinations, gives one test that includes multiple-choice items asking, for example, to "name the required textbook in this course...
...outcry against caning stems largely from two recent cases involving brutality in the application of corporal punishment. In May, Headmaster William Michael Byrd of Britain's Cholderton College was sentenced to five years in prison for forcing schoolboys to lie naked across a bed, then beating them brutally with a stick. Last month Home Secretary Roy Jenkins ordered the closing of Court Lees in Surrey, a so-called "approved school," which handles potential juvenile delinquents, after its headmaster and an assistant were accused of caning boys "with excessive severity." Recently, the Royal Navy abolished its traditional caning of youthful...