Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections. But, almost as if the whole thing were merely to make propaganda in the North, Kennedy aides made no real effort to push the bill. The Republicans-whose 1960 platform carried a similar proposal-were happy to be cosponsors, but that was about all. And Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ran the proceedings with a kind of tippy-toe Montana courtesy that called for no sessions at night, little interest during the day, and the gentlemanly script posted well in advance...
...accused our poets of imitation, and of course he's absolutely right. One only wonders why he concluded his list at Donne and Yeats. In the last year alone we have published imitations of Shaw, Shakespeare, Pope, Faulkner, Rimbaud, Keats, D. H. Lawrence Lorca, , William Carls Williams, Goldsmith, Katherine Mansfield, Hemingway, Lowell, Wilde, and Stevens, to mention only a few. Many of these authors appear in a single work; a few of them appear in almost every work. But how, may I ask, is this to be distinguished, at the college level, from "creative art"? Isn't it taken...
...least, against Smathers, who seems to have everything going for him. In Washington, Smathers is secretary to the Senate Democratic Conference, the No. 3 man among Senate Democrats after Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Whip Hubert Humphrey. This entitles him to have breakfast at the White House every Tuesday morning with his fellow leaders and an old friend named John Kennedy. As young men in the House, Smathers and Kennedy occupied adjoining offices, often partied together. When Kennedy got married, Smathers ushered at the wedding...
Soutter is the only Harvard undergraduate serving as an executive memer of the C.P.C., which includes many students from other New England colleges. He heads up a group of about ten Harvard students who jump regularly as members of the C.P.C. at Mansfield, the traditional headquarters for Crimson teams. Presently, this group is preparing to represent Harvard in the national intercollegiates, to be held at Orange...
...like most modern sports such as sports car racing, motorcycling, or skindiving, parachuting is not inexpensive. At Mansfield, for example, a first jump costs $25, the following two $15, and the next two $10--a total of $75 for the five static-line student jumps that qualify a person for free-fall jumps and membership in the C.P.C. The cost of each subsequent free-fall jump averages only about $3, however...