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Then two settings of the "Ave Verum Corpus" will be performed, one by Josquin des Prez for three voices and one by William Byrd for four voices. The "Ave Verum Corpus" text is a Communion hymn which has been set by composers of all ages...
...wants Congress to enact a spur-the-economy tax cut. But Wilbur Mills, the key committee chairman in the House, says he is "cool" to the idea; Harry Byrd, the Senate's No. 1 fiscal fellow, is deep-frozen against...
...bear hug afterwards, and we tolerated him. Mike wouldn't even think of putting a gentle twist on a man's arm; we love him, but he gets nothing." In the vacuum, such senior Democrats as Oklahoma's Robert Kerf and Virginia's Byrd now go their own way, with little regard for the Administration's wishes. And it is they who have dominated the session...
...seniority by running for Governor in 1964 in order to maintain the Long dynasty back home. Russell has been in the Senate for almost 14 years and has established himself as a conscientious liberal (except on the segregation issue). At 43, he is the third-ranking Democrat (after Harry Byrd and Robert Kerr) on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, the sixth-ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee. With patience Russell is almost certain to become chairman of one or the other group in time. He was thus understandably reluctant to leave the Senate...
...After 18 months in the presidency, during which he has suffered as many downs as ups, the President these days looks cool, controlled and relaxed. Those who see him regularly think he has tempered his anguish at being unable to remake the nation, or to win over Harry Byrd, overnight. But they report him far from resigned to the way Congress has cut up his domestic program...