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...high-ranking scholars who could be allowed access to them. Best feature of the new library: professors, graduate students and undergraduates will be able to use everything in Randall's collection, including the Gutenberg Bible. Says Randall's coworker, Associate Director of Libraries Cecil Byrd: "These rare books are as much a part of academic equipment as test tubes and Bunsen burners...
Except Presbyterian--perhaps the best team the Varsity will meet until the squad faces Yale in the middle of May--the opponents on the trip were none too challenging. The first two matches were played in the cold, 35-degree atmosphere of northern Virginia, where the Crimson defeated the Byrd Park Tennis Association, a fairly good team, by 9-6 on a strong showing in the doubles matches. The next day, Sunday, March 29, the squad whipped the Country Club of Virginia very soundly...
...decided that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan and J. William Fulbright). House opposition was so weak, in short, that only a few recalcitrant Southerners took the trouble to harangue for the sake of the record. Swiftly the vote came to the floor-a rousing 323-89-and swiftly...
Freshman Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia drew on George Washington, the Psalms and Pericles to back up Dodd: "I say that nothing can be politically right if it is morally wrong. If there must be a showdown, it should be in our time, and not in the time of our children...
...taking a deep breath." Assigned in 1944 to an all-Negro unit, many of whose members were college graduates, he became interested for the first time in Negro history. The other highlight of his naval career was his meeting with a well-to-do Negro girl named Frances Marguerite Byrd, who was a student at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where Harry was in training. He immediately recognized her as "everything I ever wanted," assured her that she would marry him some day, and departed for more training on the West Coast, leaving her with his signet ring, a gold...