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...Ways and Means Committee vote was a vital first step toward passage of a tax bill. But several steps remain-and the bill could stumble on any one of them. Even with House passage, it must go through the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd, who opposes a tax cut unless it is accompanied by deep cuts in spending. Byrd has not yet even started to hold committee hearings-and he is in no rush to begin...
...Summer School Chamber Singers had a mixed evening. Their opening selections, by William Byrd lacked cohesion and expression. The group did not have sufficient intensity and timing to sustain the delicate suspensions in the music; the fine weave of Byrd's musical cloth became confused and unravelled. Again, some of the difficulty was the accompaniment, a group of three viols and a recorder. The members of the Camerata Players had beautiful instruments, but not the facility to draw equally lovely and graceful tones from them...
...last May's U.S. assault on Mount Everest, joined another rarefied company. At White House ceremonies, President Kennedy handed him the National Geographic Society's seldom awarded (only 21 times in 57 years) Hubbard Medal, which put him among such trail blazers as Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Colonel Charles Lindbergh and-fittingly-Sir Edmund Hillary. The president also passed out replicas of the gold medal to the rest of Dyhrenfurth's 20-man American team, and to Nawang Gombu, the diminutive Sherpa mountaineer who helped Expedition Member James Whittaker, 34, plant the Stars and Stripes atop Everest...
...Sanders concert, to be broadcast locally on August 15 by WGBH-TV, will include works by Schuts, Byrd, Janequin, Barber and Bach. The Chorus, under the direction of Iva Dee Hiatt, associate Josquin, this concert will be sung on professor of Music and director of choral music at Smith College, will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra drawn from the Cambridge Civic Symphony...
...arithmetic of the various plans is fascinating. Kennedy won in 1960 with 303 electoral votes to Nixon's 219 (Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd got 15). Under the Lodge plan, Kennedy's total would have been 264 (to Nixon's 259), five fewer than the 269 needed for a majority. According to the present constitutional requirements, the outcome would have been decided by the House, with each state, regardless of size, having one vote. If every state delegation in the House had decided to cast its vote for the candidate who carried the state, Nixon...