Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Mansfield's ability to equate 200 civilians monitoring the Sinai truce with "another Viet Nam" [Sept. 8] is symptomatic of a national failing. Too often, Americans have overreacted to the lessons of history rather than learn from them...
Full Portfolio. Bentsen has raised $1.5 million in campaign funds, more than any other candidate except George Wallace and Henry Jackson. He has also enlisted some impressive political support. While refraining from an outright endorsement, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has said that Bentsen has a full portfolio of presidential qualifications. Bentsen has been formally endorsed by Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and by almost every important office holder in Virginia. He is expected to defeat Wallace handily in the Texas primary and to do well in other parts of the South...
...week's scare was a prompt move to give Secret Service protection to all major presidential candidates, declared or otherwise, a service that is now provided only to Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. "The protection will begin as soon as possible−right now," said Senator Mike Mansfield, a member of the special congressional committee that is empowered to work out who is eligible to be guarded...
...many influential Congressmen from outside New York were beginning to worry about the impact a default would have on their home districts. A number of them−Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert, House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Reuss−began calling for some additional long-term federal help for all cities. A main reason was that New York's agony has made it costlier and tougher for many other cities to raise money from investors...
...They are like Hope and Crosby, like Laurel and Hardy. They have just the right chemistry," says Director Mark Rydell of his current stars, James Caan and Elliott Gould. On location in Mansfield, Ohio, for the filming of a comedy titled Harry and Walter Go to New York, the pair portray 1890s vaudevillians who end up in prison with an urbane safecracker, played by Michael Caine. Caan and Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues...