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...Shenandoah Valley glowed in autumn gold and scarlet last week. Virginia's venerable Senator Harry Flood Byrd puffed through a restless routine. Each morning Byrd, now 70, hurried out to the apple orchards around his home at Berryville, supervised the harvest. But each afternoon the Senator settled down at his telephone to pass out political orders that crisscrossed Virginia in anticipation of a different sort of harvest. On Nov. 5 the Old Dominion elects a governor. When it does, the organization through which Harry Byrd has ruled his state for more than a quarter-century expects to reap enough...
According to Virginia's never-say-buy Senator Harry Byrd, Congress whacked $6.5 billion off Ike's original spending-authority request of $73.3 billion. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson put the total at $5.9 billion. By the House Appropriations Committee's reckoning, it came to $4.9 billion. At his press conference, the President dismissed all these claims as "political." Congress' cuts, he said, "really" amounted to something "on the order of 900 million to a billion." The President's source for this surprising figure was his own Budget Bureau, which arrived...
...budget battle has died away, a university professor may wangle a Ford Foundation grant to figure out the score. If, with the help of half a dozen accountants and an electronic brain, he comes up with a fair and accurate estimate, it will be a lot smaller than Harry Byrd's $6.5 billion-and a lot bigger than Dwight Eisenhower's $1 billion...
...back down; his stalemate Olin ("the Solon") Johnston had a 40-hour speech ready for one of the biggest filibusters of all time. Calmly Russell argued Thurmond out of his proposal. He told Olin the Solon to keep his speech handy, just in case. Then Virginia's Harry Byrd summed up the sense of the meeting. "Dick," he said...
...True Aim. Knowland's troubles, of course, stemmed from the fact that in spite of such bombast as Harry Byrd's, Dick Russell's strategy had been amazingly effective. So persuasive were the Southern arguments that most of the Senate and the President too had completely lost sight of the true aim of the civil rights bill of 1957. Wrote TIME'S Congressional Correspondent James McConaughy at week...