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...much by disposition as descent, Harry Flood Byrd was an aristocrat. Like his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jef ferson, he had doubts about a truly demotic society. In courtly but inflexible fashion, Byrd also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering...
...Byrds came from England to Virginia in 1670, grew wealthy from 18th century tobacco plantations and the slave trade; Harry's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Richmond, that nostalgic capital of lost causes. In the 19th century the family invested less shrewdly, and by the time Harry was 15, the Byrds were on the brink of bankruptcy. He quit school, took over management of a family newspaper and made it prosper. He also staked out a small patch of orchard near the little town of Berryville, expanded his preserve until it encompassed 5,000 acres, and eventually became...
...irksome presence of such minuscule bills, there was always the danger that sloppy language or slippery shirttail riders would go through unnoticed in the rush. Last week a Senate amendment to deny poverty funds to civil rights rioters was passed - but only after its sponsor, Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd Jr., hurriedly rewrote it on the Senate floor because even he was unable to explain what his original wording meant. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse cunningly pasted a rider on the higher-education aid bill that, if passed, would grant home rule to the District of Columbia...
...made an inviting target for State Senator William B. Spong Jr., 45, who had opposed conservative Byrd policies in the legislature for years, and now appealed for a "fresh, positive approach." Spong got a plurality of 764 out of a total vote...
...Young Harry, who was opposed by Armistead Soothe, 58, he concentrated on refurbishing the Byrd image. Styling himself a "progressive conservative," he coolly ignored Boothe's invitations to debate, and parried his opponent's efforts to label him a segregationist. Though Byrd helped lead Virginia's "massive resistance" campaign against school integration in the late '50s, he proclaimed that such efforts are now "passé." Said he: "I am for education." Byrd, who has been serving in the Senate by appointment since Harry Sr.'s resignation in November, probably attracted some sympathy votes, since...