Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backyard barbecues, Jayne Mansfield's Chihuahua, Popsicle, modeled a chef's outfit complete with a cap stenciled "Hot Dog"; for resort beach wear, Model Jane Waiting's dachshund took a few turns around the floor with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed...
Though he had a virus ailment, a touch of pneumonia and a 100.2° temperature, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield left his bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, bundled up against a chill wind, and was chauffeured to the Capitol. Mansfield had made sure in advance that other Administration stalwarts would also be on hand. As for the G.O.P., Minority Leader Everett Dirksen warned potential no-shows: "By God, you're going to be here." To a man, they were. Thus, after a Dirksen-led filibuster had tied up the Senate for a total of 13 days in an attempt...
Leading the attack on Mansfield's petition to impose cloture, Dirksen castigated the Administration's attempt to foist "compulsory unionism" on hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers. "The basic concept upon which the whole structure of Government rests," he said, "is the concept of freedom. God help us if we impair it, if we tarnish it, if we sully it, if we transmit it to the next generation in impaired form." Mansfield countered with harsh words. He decried "the resentments, the irritations, the vendettas and the whatevers against organized labor" that had prompted the talkathon. Noting the Senate...
...short of the mark the Administration had fallen. "On this vote," boomed Humphrey when the tally was completed, "there are 51 yeas and 48 nays. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting not having voted in the affirmative, the cloture motion is rejected." Two days later Mansfield tried again; this time the vote was 50 to 49 for cloture. Thus repeal of 14(b) was dead for this session. The bill would remain on the Senate calendar, Mansfield said, "with the inscription: R.I.P...
...week's end the pressure had gotten too much for Mansfield, who announced that he would ask for a vote this week on a cloture petition to shut off the filibuster. That was fine with Dirksen. With all but six of his 32 Republican colleagues firmly behind him, and strong support from Southern Democrats, he was confident of getting the 34 votes needed to defeat cloture. For Mansfield to win, said Dirksen, "it would take nothing short of a miracle-or an earth convulsion...