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...cargo. It has flown in prefabricated huts to protect its Antarctic team from the bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations. The reactors will not only pay for themselves through savings on fuel (which costs 50 times as much as in the U.S. when flown into Antarctica), but will make possible research requiring big amounts of electric power and eventually open up the continent for flying through the long...
Speaking at the Law School Forum. James J. Kilparick, editor of the Richmond News Leader and ally of the Byrd forces in Virginia, said that, while Southerners declare themselves to be conservatives, "when he money is being passed our we are right there at the through asking for our share...
...other liberal on the program, Armistead Boothe, Virginia state senator who is considered the leader of the anti-Byrd forces, agreed with Carter. He called the massive resistance laws "the greatest tragedy through which Virginia has passed in the twentieth century...
...Strength. The defeat came after a long, hard struggle. Last month the Senate overwhelmingly approved almost everything that President Kennedy had wanted. And before the approving vote, the Senate handily defeated an amendment (which the Administration called totally unacceptable), sponsored by Virginia's purse-conscious Democrat Harry Byrd, which would have granted authority for the five-year program, but would have placed its financing on an annual basis...
When the vote came, Harry Byrd fell far short of the strength he had counted upon for his moral victory: the Senate turned down his amendment 56 to 39. So far, so good. After that key vote it seemed likely that the Senate would overwhelmingly approve the Administration's foreign aid bill. But the legislation would still have to pass the test of the House-and to pass that test, it would need all the power, persuasion and politics that the New Frontier could muster...