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...Kleindienst. In 1969 Kleindienst put together a judicial master list of sorts containing the names of some 150 possible candidates for Supreme Court vacancies. The roster has been used for nominations to lower courts as well. It is heavy with sitting judges and Establishment lawyers; Republican Administrations tend to tap prominent law firms for court talent. Says one Administration official: "We've produced lots of good judges, but we haven't produced the best. We've ignored the good law professors because they don't come through the system. They're not cronies...
...sees connections between the Soviets and the American left. "The radical left, strongly led and with a growing base of support, is plotting violence and revolution," he wrote recently. "Its leaders visit and collaborate with foreign Communist enemies." To combat such activities the Government should be freely able to tap telephones. These views so pleased J. Edgar Hoover that he had Powell's statement reprinted in the FBI law-enforcement bulletin. Nixon, too, was presumably satisfied. Powell is not only a great Virginian, he said, but "a very great American...
...tap on a skull here, the tinkling of a mystical bell there, the rhythmic beat of the conga drum, and the calling voices in the background all weave a pattern that leaves the listener spell-bound. Dr. John didn't learn to play the guitar in a bar on the South Side of Chicago but from Sister Eunice at The Temple of Innocent Blood. And he didn't get his "soul" in Memphis, but from the bayous of Louisiana. Strange, very strange...
...those years Pound was, by any measure, an extraordinary man. He was the American poet who read the Classics diligently, mixing Idaho slang with Italian, Latin and Greek. He was the enthusiast who could leap and tap-dance his way through the streets of Venice after watching a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film. He was the public figure who had his own strong theories of economics and who travelled to America with hopes of preventing war between the U.S. and Italy, and of selling his friend Mussolini to F.D.R. When his daughter was fully weaned from the mountain soil...
...year Playboy will go international, starting European editions in French, Italian and German under the guidance of Playboy executive and long-TIME Staffer Michael Demarest. About two-thirds of the material and most of the nudes will be from the U.S. Playboy, although Hefner says that he intends to tap European talent as well...