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...Kalmbach family moved to Pasadena from Michigan (his father had died) when Herb was a young teenager. Frank Clement, who became his best schoolboy friend, remembers the newcomer as "a free and loose kid, an absolute nut . . . with the guts of a burglar." Of Germanic origins, Kalmbach was a fleeting, childish admirer of Hitler before World War II broke out, writing some stories about the Reich in the school paper. Remarkably, he was one of four finalists in a design competition for an airplane de-icer that the U.S. needed, even though, recalls Clement, he was only...
...Richard Kleindienst, who was then Deputy Attorney General, hired Dean as the Justice Department's liaison with Congress. As such, he was in charge of lobbying efforts for the ill-fated nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. His loyalty to the Administration so impressed senior White House staffers that he was hired to succeed John Ehrlichman as presidential counsel in 1970. In that job, Dean appeared to be a man of rigid principle, even when he was secretly helping to cover up Watergate. Once a junior staffer asked whether he could accept...
...Clement Stone, DD.L., self-made insurance magnate and major G.O.P. contributor. Starting with $100 and a dream, [he] has spent a lifetime creating material and spiritual wealth...
...when the Justices don't, the President does. Nixon's failed nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were hardly the first presidential efforts to strike a geographical balance. George Washington, Simon notes, named "to his first court three Northerners and three Southerners." Abraham Lincoln complained that Justices "trample on the rights of others"; he chose men for the high bench largely because they agreed with him. In general, Simon notes, whenever "the U.S. has faced political, social or economic crises on a broad scale, Presidents have felt a greater compulsion to control the court...
...UNCLE ANTOINE is a standout made in Quebec, an area that has not produced great films in the past, yet it is far more than a pleasant surprise. Director Claude Jutra and scenarist Clement Perron treat the central subject of a boy's early adolescence with greater exuberance and insight than most film-makers who have dealt with youth. Going far beyond the story of the boy, the film-makers have enriched their film with the energy that exists alongside poverty in backwoods Quebec. Within the loose structure of the film, vivid images which delight the eye become reference points...