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Massive Resistance. In Richmond, Governor Almond, 60, able lawyer, onetime Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
...House, which approved a $10 billion permanent increase in the $275 billion permanent national debt limit, plus an additional temporary increase of $3 billion, changed its mind. It went along with a Senate bill pressed by Virginia's penny-counting Harry Byrd, setting the permanent increase at $8 billion and the temporary increase at $5 billion more until next June...
...quivering Middle East more U.S. ground troops were pouring ashore. But there beneath the peaceful, sunlit icecap, the 116 U.S. Navymen were making more pages for the history books than anybody else. They were setting a new sea tradition for their countrymen, to rate alongside Jones, Farragut, Peary, Byrd. The submarine was blunt-bowed Nautilus, world's first nuclear-powered ship. Nautilus' position: under the ice at the North Pole...
...play two encores. Why are musicians so reluctant to announce the titles of encores? Critics are expected to know every piece ever written, but the public is not. A number of people asked me afterwards what the encores were. For others who are curious, the first encore was William Byrd's Pavane for the Earl of Salisbury; the second was Claude Daquin's Noel No. 10, the only fine piece from his collection of twelve noels, each one a theme and variations. Please, Mr. Biggs, more variety and fewer variations...
...summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8,000 film-illustrated lectures, formed an accurate picture of the world for millions of Americans in the leisurely years before radio and the airliner. "I am not an explorer," said Holmes. "The South Pole belongs to Byrd and Amundsen, and they can have it." He filled his Manhattan apartment with exotic curios and burnished idols, and called it Nirvana; his wife called it Buddha-pest...