Word: mansfields
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This issue is whether or not the system by which we elect Presidents needs reforming. The election's graphic illustration of how popular and electoral votes may be disparate has troubled many; such varied political figures as the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, Sen. Javits, and Norman Thomas, not to mention Strom Thurmond, have urged extinction of the electoral troglodyte. And even fiercely partisan Kennedy supporters feel qualms about rolling in the New Frontier on a push-cart designed to slow down democratic traffic...
...This was a good system in horse-and-buggy days," said Democratic Senate Whip Mike Mansfield last week, "but we ought to bring it up to date." Promptly the Wall Street Journal disputed him: "This system works remarkably well . . . Abolishing it would be one more blow at the federal structure, one more step toward centralization of power in the National Government." In the wake of the 20th century's closest election, politicos and pundits locked anew in an old debate: Should the electoral college be abolished, or reformed to enhance the power of the popular vote...
Popular Vote. Montana Democrat Mansfield is the current leader of the crusade to cast out the college, choose the President by popular plurality. Disadvantage: a national popularity contest would be a body blow to that unique American creation, the federal system, which gives considerable weight to the rights of states...
Born. To Jayne Mansfield, 27, sometime cinemaspirant, who reported that she was "so thrilled I'd like to have 500 more babies," and Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 30, knot-muscled, Hungarian-born Mr. Universe of 1956: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...politics and has covered every important international conference in Europe since 1949. Boulay came to the U.S. on a State Department tour, one of the conditions of which was that he publish no interviews while still in the U.S. A few days after his Stevenson visit, he told a Mansfield, Mass, editor: "I do not know what to do. This is important information but I was told not to publish it." Said he last week: "Mr. Adlai Stevenson is walking slowly in the path of truth. In his first denial he seemed unaware of my visit...