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...Byrd Watchers...
Since you apparently know nothing of Virginia's politics or the - problems of desegregation [Dec. 3], it would be better if you did not further display your lack of knowledge. As for Senator Byrd, the nation as well as Virginia is fortunate in having a man who is against collectivism...
...Virginians are proud of Harry Flood Byrd. If the recent legislation [against desegregation 1 is his way of setting Virginia and other Southern states back, hurrah! Save your Confederate money, boys, the South's gonna rise again...
...first out; after shaking hands with the men who had come from the huts to greet him, he unloaded his gear from the plane. At this two-mile-high U.S. base at the South Pole, Paul Siple (who first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from the antarctic some of its best-kept secrets...
...William Byrd & His Age (Alfred Deller; Basel's Wenzinger Consort of Viols; Vanguard). Music from the golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...