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There have been over 5,000 sport parachute jumps made at Mansfield--and at least that many at Orange--resulting in no fatalities whatsoever. Last year there were 60,000 jumps made in this country, resulting in six fatalities--none of which attributable to parachute malfunction (a suicide two drownings, two "freezes" on non-static-line jumps, and one electrocution resulting from a landing in high wires...
Down the Line. What has happened since those good old days of talking about how a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress could get things moving again? Part of the answer lies with the Democratic leadership on the Hill. Senate Leader Mike Mansfield is a fine gentlemanly fellow-maybe too much so for the hard political demands of his job. As for the House leaders-Speaker John McCormack. Carl Albert and Whip Hale Boggs&$151;they have yet to prove that they can even count noses before the vote comes...
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Michael J. Mansfield, majority leader, U.S. Senate LL.D...
When word of what was going on reached Mansfield's office, the meeting abruptly broke up, and Democrats scurried toward the Senate floor. Just after the clerk finished calling the roll, some two dozen Democratic Senators surged into the chamber, began gesturing to get their votes recorded. Amid the confusion, many Senators got only a sketchy notion of what was being voted on, and since the amendment seemed to have carried anyway, several of them decided to play safe and vote against Communism. Final tally: 57 for the amendment. 24 against...
...Yugoslavia and Poland helps the West by lessening those countries' dependence on Russia-a belief that has survived Tito's numberless demonstrations of hostility toward the U.S. So the Administration, predictably, put up a brisk fight against the Lausche amendment. President Kennedy himself telephoned Majority Leader Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Mc-Kinley Dirksen. White House staffers and State Department officials, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, called other Senators to ask for help...