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...Jobs. In the Senate, all eyes will be on Democratic Whip Russell Long of Louisiana, who is scheduled to become chairman of the Finance Committee in place of Virginia's Harry Byrd, who resigned from the Senate in November because of ill health. Long will be the first man in memory to hold both jobs, but Senate friends say that he has his eye on yet another job: the Senate majority leadership, now held by Montana's unassertive Mike Mansfield. "We all love Mike," says one Democratic Senator, "but many of us don't like...
That was enough to get the Bills' goat. "Beating San Diego is the biggest thing in my life," gritted Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, who was a Charger until Coach Sid Gillman let him go for the waiver price of $100. Bills Defensive Back Butch Byrd also had a personal score to settle with Charger End Don Norton, who boasted publicly that he could beat Byrd on passes any time he wanted to. Byrd not only covered Norton like a blanket (Norton caught only one pass all afternoon), he also ran a punt back 74 yds. for Buffalo...
Despite staunch support from Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic machine in Virginia's gubernatorial election last month, Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin won only after beating down a strong challenge by Republican Candidate A. Linwood Holton, who captured 38% of the votes-and proved that the state could no longer be considered a Byrd sanctuary. Last week brought even more impressive evidence of change in the Old Dominion. The occasion was a special election to fill the state senate seat vacated by Harry F. Byrd Jr., 51, whose appointment to the U.S. Senate last month in place...
...outcome was a landslide for G.O.P. Candidate J. Kenneth Robinson, 49, a World War II infantry major and-like old Harry Byrd-an apple grower. Robinson rolled over Byrd-backed County Attorney Joseph A. Massie Jr. by 10,293 votes to 4,949, a better than 2-to-l margin, capturing a seat in an area that has been Democratic for years. His victory, concluded Robinson, "will encourage other Republicans to run for office. So many good candidates have thought that they have to run as Democrats...
Just as Virginia's Senator Harry ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, was settling comfortably into the handsome, five-room office suite that he'd inherited along with Papa Byrd's title last month, in stalked Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, 65. The senior Senator prowled through the Virginian's homestead, admired the view of the Capitol, and then announced that he would foreclose the mortgage. "I'd like to have the office," rumbled Morse, who stands on the eighth rung from the top in Senate seniority and can claim nearly any office he chooses...