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...tractor train will head for the South Pole from Byrd Station in the Ellsworth Highland, exploring unknown mountains and marking the 800-mile route with bamboo poles thrust into the ice each 1/5 mile...
...States'-Rights Democrat James F. Byrnes, Truman-era Secretary of State and former (1951-55) Governor of South Carolina, blasted the Democratic platform as "a threat to our system of free enterprise," announced for Nixon-Lodge. He was for Eisenhower in 1952, for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd...
Adding up the signs, some economists conclude that the U.S. is on the brink of a recession. Others, like the Wall Street Journal's columnist George Shea, hold that the nation has for some months actually been in a recession. Says James A. Byrd, economic adviser for Houston's National Bank of Commerce: "I believe we are probably about halfway through a rolling readjustment.* The recession of 1961 that everyone is talking about is already half over. It will bottom out early in 1961, and by the middle of 1961 we should have a boom. The worst lies...
...inspires a thump of political kinship in the hearts of Virginia Democrats is Arizona's deep-dyed conservative. Senator Barry Goldwater. On a raid into the Old Dominion last week, Goldwater publicly assured Virginians that they could interpret the silence of their own Democratic patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 73. about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as "sufficient instruction'' to vote for Nixon-Lodge. In rebuttal, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, sometime Byrdman who has gradually set up a separate camp of his own, spoke up for Jack Kennedy and seized the chance...
Beyond Magnolias. Southern states that Nixon has an even chance of winning are Virginia, where Patriarch Harry Byrd has yet to speak a kind word for Kennedy; North Carolina, where Ike four years ago lost by only 16,000 votes and Nixon interest is running high since his Greensboro visit; Florida, where Republicans are strong and Democrats are feuding; Kentucky and Oklahoma, each with considerable religious sentiment running; Tennessee, which has long had a traditional Republican belt in the east and now has an additional G.O.P. vote in the cities; and Texas, where Lyndon Johnson's home-state appeal...