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...James St. Clair...
...graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS) who was former President Richard M. Nixon's lawyer during the Watergate controversy, James St. Clair died March...
DIED. JAMES D. ST. CLAIR, 80, trial lawyer who defended President Nixon during the Watergate impeachment proceedings; in Westwood, Mass. In 1954 St. Clair found renown as chief assistant to Joseph Welch, counsel for the U.S. Army during Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist investigation. During his storied career, St. Clair defended Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, tried for encouraging draft evasion (the charges were later dropped), and represented the Boston School Committee in its losing struggle against mandatory busing...
When Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 34-year-old electrical engineer from Grand Bend, Kans., began working at a fledgling Dallas company called Texas Instruments in May 1958, he didn't yet qualify for the annual two-week summer vacation. So, come July, he had the lab pretty much to himself to try out something that had long been bugging him. Why, he wondered, couldn't all those tiny components--transistors, resistors, capacitors--in TI's electronic gadgetry be created out of a single block of material instead of separately wired parts? By September, he was ready to show...
...stars of This Is Spinal Tap, that perfect satire about a heavy-metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome re-release and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind Waiting for Guffman, in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway bound...