Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, this week's contest for Senate majority leader looks like no contest at all: a dour conservative from West Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
Hard-Earned Favors. Byrd won a Senate term in 1958 after six years in West Virginia state politics and six more in the U.S. House. With his seat securebills favored by labor unions, and doling out some of his unused campaign money to liberal as well as conservative Democrats. In 1967, he took over the obscure and little-wanted post of secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference. Byrd quickly ingratiated himself with the majority whip, Louisiana's Russell Long, who then was drinking heavily and neglecting his duties. Soon Byrd was doing Long's errands and collecting lous. After...
...appointed Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, Virginia Merlier, assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and Glen W. Bowersock '57, professor of Greek and Latin, to the committee...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? An admirable revival, with Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara, verifies that after 14 years this marital Walpurgisnacht has become part of the permanent canon of U.S. drama...
Died. Peter Lisagor, 61, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News and the best all-round newspaper correspondent in the nation's capital; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Born poor in West Virginia, Lisagor played semipro baseball to pay his way through the University of Michigan. He joined the Daily News in 1939 and was assigned to Washington eleven years later. His stories, columns, speeches and TV appearances on NBC's Meet the Press, Public Broadcasting's Washington Week in Review and other programs were marked by incisive perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity...