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Towards Yesterday. Tragically, the Byrd program has hurt most what Harry Byrd is trying to protect: the education of Virginia's children. Construction of needed school facilities is lagging badly; school boards are hard put to find buyers willing to invest in Virginia's confusion.
The heartbreaking thing about Virginia is that, as the South's leader, it has chosen to lead the way backward into a dark yesterday. Its acts to date have been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed.