Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cement Mixer, Burt Lancaster doing acrobatics, Jayne Mansfield playing the violin, Lauren Bacall reading Casey at the Bat, and James Cagney and Jack Lemmon dancing...
McNamara's news was greeted sympathetically by Washington critics of the war, who see the barrier as a possible first step to scale down the bombing of North Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged such a barricade since April. But there was little enthusiasm from soldiers. They oppose any attempt to tie down troops in static positions while the enemy roams free. "Militarily, it's no great shakes," grumbled a Marine officer. An Army general was kinder. "I guess it can't hurt anything," he hazarded, "if it doesn't draw...
...strident. Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen Young cried out against the "spectacle" of an American admiral, CINCPAC Commander Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, who is the military overseer of the Viet Nam war, asking for more effective bombing in the North. Other politicians, ranging from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield to Republican Presidential Hopeful Charles Percy, pointed up the threat of Chinese and/or Russian involvement in the war as a result of the wider bombing. For the hawks, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford took an opposite position: "Why are we pulling our punches...
Desalting facilities are in operation in places like Kuwait, Curaçao and Israel. In the U.S., with technical assistance from the Interior Department's Office of Saline Water, Buckeye, Ariz., and Port Mansfield, Texas, both turned to desalination after their water became too brackish. With the threat of water shortages and pollution mounting, other cities can be expected to follow suit, especially as nuclear power becomes available to make large-scale desalination projects more economical...
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...