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...advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America...
Divorced. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born, Jamaica-schooled cinemactor (Carmen Jones) and jukebox favorite; by Psychologist Frances Marguerite Byrd Belafonte, 28; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Programs for lopping big chunks off that $72 billion are piling up. New Hampshire's Bridges suggests nicks and slashes adding up to a hefty $3.3 billion. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, working on his yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling...
Hubert Humphrey is a club member along with such conservatives as Theodore Green and Harry Byrd. How did Humphrey get there? You will remember him for his floor fight at the 1948 Democratic convention (in defiance of agreements among party leaders) to get a firm civil rights plank in the platform. He has since learned to compromise. Lest you shudder (White feels that a Senator must "accommodate" to be effective), it should be noted that this compromise may have considerably speeded up the chances of some civil rights laws...
...program might not satisfy heavy industries, it would at least ease some of the pressure of increasing obsolescence and spiraling inflation, though some critics argue that it would bring a temporary tax loss for the Government. After a study of tax write-offs, Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says that there has been a temporary loss of $5 billion in revenue since Korea because of defense fast tax write-offs. But many economists do not think that accelerated depreciation for peacetime industry would be a hardship for the Government. During the past...