Word: mansfield
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...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's bill to make a sixth-grade education the only required proof of a voter's literacy, now backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as well, faced its first legislative test-and failed. The backers of the bill hoped to avoid sending their measure to the Judiciary Committee, which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that...
...North Beach. Even in Washington, where political humor has heretofore been of the unconscious kind, four night spots are now flourishing with topical jokesters. Manhattan's The Premise has just opened a Washington outpost, where distinguished audiences (including, on occasion, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senators Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Kenneth Keating, "Scoop" Jackson) have been neighing in the aisles while a performer playing Mahatma Gandhi turns over slowly in his grave after Nehru tells him about Goa, or Chief Sun Cloud, a new Senator from Wyoming, calls up the admissions committee of the Cosmos Club and the committee chairman...
...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana introduced a bill that would prohibit the "arbitrary" use of the literacy tests required for voting privileges. Under the bill, Puerto Ricans would no longer be required to know English in order to vote-provided they had at least a sixth-grade education in Spanish-and Southern states would not be able to prevent Negroes from voting by asking them to "interpret" the Constitution. Administration strategists gave the bill a "reasonably good" chance of passage...
First they say students should sex, and then they say they shouldn't. In the Jan. Campus Illustrated, Dr. Leo Koch advised students to sex freely. But in the February number, there arises a champion of virtue in the person of Jayne Mansfield, no less...
...Miss Mansfield "whose 165 I.Q.," according to the C.I. press release, "matching her physical I.Q. (Incredible Qualities)," says, "You can mess yourself up pretty heavily by giving vent to sexual desire. People, and particularly the young, should channel their sex drives elsewhere--either into work or sports." And she adds, "Indiscriminate use of sexual desire makes no sense. I mean, after all, you don't let a child eat all the candy he wants merely because he wants...