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...trial and two-thirds vote for conviction in the Senate. Since 1789, only nine federal judges have been finally impeached and eight tried before the Senate. Four of the eight were acquitted, including the only impeached Supreme Court Justice. He was George Washington's appointee, Samuel Chase, who was charged with intemperate denunciations of parties before...
...Vietnamese intruders. Today, however, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong control perhaps twice as much Cambodian territory as they did a month ago. Minister of Information Trinh Hoanh admits uncomfortably: "Before, the Communists weren't occupying our territory. They'd come in and we'd chase them out. Now they come in and they stay...
...final crucial vote against Carswell came from another New England Republican, Maine's formidably taciturn Margaret Chase Smith, who had opposed Haynsworth. Though Mrs. Smith indicated before the vote that she was unhappy with Carswell's contradictory testimony about his role in incorporating a segregated Tallahassee country club, one of her close confidants let the White House know that she was "all right" on Carswell. Just before the Senate vote, Mrs. Smith learned that Administration operatives, particularly White House Aide Bryce Harlow, were using her favorable stand to lobby Republican waverers. The Congress has no fury like...
...chase reached a peak of sorts on the great estates of 17th century Germany. Johann Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, was renowned particularly for his great bear and boar hounds, bred to the size of yearling steers. To record his chases, Duke Casimir hired a court painter named Wolfgang Birkner. The result was one of the most complete hunting chronicles ever produced...
...hunting diary of Casimir's has been found, but some idea of the number of game taken on such chases can be had from accounts left by two neighboring dukes, Electors Johann George I and II, who together killed no fewer than 228,478 animals, including more than 110,000 deer. Birkner had none of the great compositional powers of Cranach or Velasquez, both of whom painted accounts of the chase. But Casimir could not have wished for a more faithful descriptive artist. Birkner spared no blood or gore, and no detail escaped his eye. At the same time...