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Ever since they became law partners in 1967, Mitchell and Nixon have been fast friends and kindred spirits. It was Mitchell who gave one of the pushes that helped to force Justice Abe Fortas off the Supreme Court by advising the then Chief Justice, Earl Warren, of a financial indiscretion committed by Fortas. The resignation convinced Nixon of the danger of appointing anyone so close to himself that it would encourage charges of cronyism, as in the case of Fortas and Lyndon Johnson...
Federal Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, whose 1968 nomination collapsed when the Senate refused to confirm Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, accepted his fate with equanimity, returned to his Fifth Circuit Court bench, and talked jokingly of writing a book about his experience. Judge Clement Haynsworth, who suffered from conflict-of-interest charges after he was nominated, has also survived his ordeal. Declaring that "what happened last fall is dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also...
Reserved Seat. With talk like that from his supporters, there was scarcely anything of substance that Carswell's opponents could add. There are, indeed, many mediocre people in the country, and perhaps they do feel under-represented on the court-though certainly not in the Congress. Before Abe Fortas' departure, there had been a "Jewish seat" on the court since Woodrow Wilson appointed Louis Brandeis in 1916. Under the Hruska doctrine, there might henceforth be a place reserved for mediocrities. On reflection, even Hmska, Carswell's chief sponsor in the Senate, realized that his reasoning was more...
...fifteen. I went to the province of Cameguey, and worked with a farmer all day. At night we studied the abe; I taught four farmers-two women and two men. The campaign was like a battle, because we had one million illiterate people. And we had to begin to teach them, because we had to go out from underdevelopment. It was the first activity of the Revolution. All the youth of our country were in that campaign. We were very young people-12, 13, 14, 15 years. We lived all the time with the farmers, teaching them what the Revolution...
...Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors) has formed his own private army of 100 men to help restore discipline, patriotism and pride in young Japanese. But many artists are exceptions to the growing preoccupation with Japanese identity. They consider their work to be their passports. Says Novelist (The Ruined Map) Kobo Abe: "We have nothing left to mark ourselves as particularly Japanese, and we tend to regard ourselves as people with the same aspi rations as our counterparts...