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...Dominion last week, Goldwater publicly assured Virginians that they could interpret the silence of their own Democratic patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 73. about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as "sufficient instruction'' to vote for Nixon-Lodge. In rebuttal, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, sometime Byrdman who has gradually set up a separate camp of his own, spoke up for Jack Kennedy and seized the chance for a sly jab at Byrd and his lieutenants. "I am certainly not going to label these distinguished Virginians as Republicans," said Almond with deadpan irony. "Senator Goldwater has already done...
...court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political and monstrous...
...some leftist opposition, it safely assured its own man, Lieut. Governor William Munford Tuck, 48, of getting the Governor's chair. Thus, if ailing Senator Carter Glass, 87-who has not answered a roll-call in three years-retires or dies, his successor will be a hand-picked Byrdman...
...viaduct, later broke down twice. The front wheels had to be realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like...