Word: mansfield
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...easily the Senate's coolest elder statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
...changed the nature of the Senate. He virtually ended the parliamentary stranglehold of the filibuster, regularly forbidding Senators to engage in all-night attempts to break them. When a Democratic committee chairman wanted to steer a bill through floor debate, Mansfield graciously surrendered his front-row desk to the chairman. He consistently urged younger Senators to take the lead in proposing challenging new legislation...
Scholarly ability takes precedence over teaching ability in the Government and Economics departments as well. "We tend to take a bright but halting fellow over one that speaks well but hasn't written much," Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '54, chairman of the Government department said yesterday...
Professor H. Mansfield asked the President what was being done about the problem of grade inflation, particularly among undergraduates. He noted that the matter had been touched upon in Dean Rosovsky's "Letter on Undergraduate Education" last Spring, but Professor Mansfield was not aware that the specific issue had been assigned to any of the Task Forces which were currently deliberating various aspects of undergraduate education. Professor Mansfield declared that when one considered that last June eighty-five percent of the class had graduated with honors and that seventy-three people had received Summas, it was possible to question...
Another Marriage. Ironically, a major obstacle for the House Democrats may be the Democratic leadership in the Senate, which is still cautious and accommodating. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who doubts that he has the votes to override many of Ford's vetoes, expects to work out "more cooperation with the President and maybe a return to the 'marriage' [with Congress] he talked about at the start. I don't think there will be too much new legislation. I must point out that I'm for national health insurance, but I don't believe...