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Onto the floor of the Senate last week walked Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd. wearing a white summer suit and a small smile. Up for Senate debate and voting was a Byrd-written amendment that would have refused to the Kennedy Administration its urgently requested authority to place the U.S.'s $8.8 billion foreign aid program on a five-year basis, without having to return to Congress with a begging bowl each year. Kennedy's proposal made sense in the need to be able to match Khrushchev in long-term commitments to needy nations...
...Frontier also recognized the importance of the upcoming vote-and President Kennedy himself spent up to three hours a day on the telephone, lobbying with Senators against the Byrd amendment. The Democratic Administration received valuable support from Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton, chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee from 1959-61. Morton arose on the Senate floor to remind his Republican colleagues that Dwight Eisenhower had sought, and been refused, just such long-term foreign aid authority in 1957. He cited the words of Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: "Economic development is a long-term process...
What was surprising was that Harrison was the hand-picked candidate of aging Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 74, and the rumormongers were saying that the political nest, feathered so faithfully by Byrd over three decades, was falling apart. All of Byrd's oldtime cronies had either died or retired; the party was still scarred by a split over the methods of combating school integration; population was shifting away from Byrd's rural strongholds. The campaign itself was a bit fuzzy, since both candidates are solidly conservative. Stephens, a former Byrd disciple, had even written to the Senator...
...fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...
...laboriously won. . . ." An Alumni Bulletin survey proclaimed that Harvard men had written 308 books between June and December, and the Harvard Medical School celebrated its 150th anniversary with an address in Sanders Theatre from President-Emeritus Lowell. The Geographical Laboratory was getting daily messages from Rear Admiral Byrd in Little America, and President Conant had the 7 o'clock ringing of the bells discontinued in the Yard, while the College's then-most-famous-graduate was quoted as saying from Washington that he would sooner see his name conferred on a baby than on Lowell House's carillon...