Word: mansfield
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...Subcommittees on Separation of Powers and Constitutional Rights. As such, he is the man the Senate is counting on to lead its struggle against what is increasingly seen as presidential encroachment on congressional powers, including impounding of funds and government by decree. "Sam Ervin," says Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, "is the man to watch in this Congress." Or as Hubert Humphrey put it: "Ervin is the right man at the right time in the right place...
...Ervin, at 76, rather than more obvious leaders like Senators Mike Mansfield or Ted Kennedy emerged as the enfant terrible of Congress? In part, because of his seniority: his 19 years in the Senate have brought him the appropriate chairmanships. But beyond this, Ervin is known as one of the most eminent constitutionalists in the Senate, a man of such personal prestige, of such judicial temperament, that he cannot easily be attacked. Kennedy, for instance, whose subcommittee staff has been working long and hard on the Watergate investigation, realizes his own vulnerability and has hoped all along that Ervin would...
...director of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as M16, has always been referred to by his in-the-know colleagues as "C." The practice is said to date back to the department's first director, Sir Mansfield Gumming, who insisted on it for the sake of anonymity. Sir Mansfield, who died in 1923, passed the initial on to his successors. To the British press, on the other hand, the director of M16 is usually referred to as "M"-as in the James Bond thrillers...
Aiken is the senior Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee; he is in the vortex of the struggle between Administration and congressional critics on Viet Nam. Old Friend Mike Mansfield says that Aiken is neither a hawk nor a dove but a "wise old owl," and there are indications that Aiken may well take the field against his party's President if the war does not end soon...
REPRESENTATIVE LESLIE ARENDS, 77, has been Republican Whip for 30 years and is one of Gerald Ford's key aides in pushing Nixon legislation through the House. Popular and gregarious, an unsung parliamentary tactician of confounding skill he blocked a 1971 House vote on the Mansfield Amendment, which called for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam within six months. For all his enthusiasm, however the Illinoisan is frank about G.O.P. problems when they occur. "The way things are going," he said during a low point, "we couldn't put the Ten Commandments into the bill...