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...opponents hope to persuade others, especially the key moderate Republicans, to be absent when the nomination comes up, rather than cast a vote for mediocrity. Even the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has revealed that he would have much preferred the rejected Clement Haynsworth to Carswell on the ground that Haynsworth is more capable of appreciating a sophisticated argument...
...true dimensions. Hair knows clearly neither beinning nor end, nor specifically delimited performance space. The audience- attuned to the formalized structures of more traditional Broadway plays- struggles to give shape to the inchoate form, and only gradually discovers that the seemingly peripheral goings- on constitute a very significant clement in the play...
That broadside attack last week on G. Harrold Carswell was delivered by Law Professor William Van Alstyne of Duke University. In testimony before the same Senate Judiciary Committee last year, Van Alstyne, a noted expert on the court, had delighted Southern Senators by supporting the confirmation of Clement Haynsworth...
...embarrassment seemed like a playback of the recent Clement Haynsworth episode. That time, Attorney General John Mitchell and the FBI had overlooked Haynsworth's financial dealings, which led to ethical questions and eventually Haynsworth's rejection by the Senate. This time, Mitchell & Co. had apparently been so concerned in checking the nominee's finances that they overlooked another bit of damaging information. The Administration's bungle was all the more ironic because the Senate, after the bruising Haynsworth battle, stood ready to accept virtually whomever President Nixon chose the second time. Taking full advantage of that...
...hell with everybody else.' " Wallace works harder and longer than anyone else. He is on the road fully one-third of his working life, and spent the New Year's weekend, for instance, tracking down the fugitive Cleaver in Algeria. Preparing for an interview with Judge Clement Haynsworth last month, he immersed himself for eight hours in Senate hearings transcripts, court decisions and CBS morgue clips. Wallace usually opens his interviews with the soft questions. "You want to put a man at ease," he says. "You waste a few, like a baseball pitcher." He talked to Cleaver...