Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to win support for the Mansfield-Dirksen voting rights bill will begin at the University on Monday. Sponsored by the Liberal Union and the Young Democrats, the drive will encourage age students to write their senators and representatives on behalf of the legislation...
...Mansfield-Dirksen Bill, which is supported by the Kennedy Administration, provides that a sixth-grade education will be sufficient to satisfy any state literacy test in federal elections...
...measure was introduced by Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-Okla.) on Jan. 30 and was immediately referred to the Judiclary Committee, chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Mansfield promised that if the Committee did not act on the bill by the end of May, he would bring it to the floor as a rider to other legislation...
Upsetting the Applecart. But just a few minutes later, a House Republican upset the applecart. Michigan's Representative George Meader, onetime staff director of the Senate Government Operations Committee, announced that he would force the urban affairs plan to a House vote two days later. In the Senate, Mansfield hurried back onto the floor and announced that he would move to discharge McClellan's committee and obtain a Senate vote before the House could act. It was a fatal move: tough old John McClellan took it as a personal affront and began rounding up votes to defeat...
...from centerfield for a goodbye buss. Fetching up next in Mexico City, Marilyn scoffed at rumors that she might remarry DiMaggio ("We tried it once"), but admitted that "I'm keeping my eyes open." Then, buttonholed about the deep-water ordeal (TIME, Feb. 16) of Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn indicated one matter on which her eyes were wide-screen open. "I'd never," sniffed she, "let myself get lost on a desert island with a publicity...