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...Popular Contempt. The thwarted attack was a heartening triumph for the army. But it also pointed up the fact that the army has its hands full maintaining internal security without getting involved once again in Argentina's politics. Top army leaders like Commanding General Videla-who could have the presidency virtually for the asking-remember the long, bitter period of military control over Argentina's government from 1966 to 1973. The failure by the military to arrest Argentina's slide into chaos earned it such popular contempt that children even denied that their fathers were soldiers...
...Midonick removed the three executors from the estate, voided all contracts between them and Marlborough, and assessed $9,252,000 in fines and damages against them, Marlborough Galleries and Frank Lloyd, 64, Marlborough's owner. The total included a fine of $3.3 million against Lloyd and Marlborough for contempt of court in selling a group of Rothkos in defiance of a court order. Arthur Richenthal, trial attorney for Reis and Stamos, called the verdict "overkill and legally erroneous ... at best a Pyrrhic Victory for the Rothko children...
That leaves Marlborough and Lloyd. But the New York gallery is only a small branch of the Liechtenstein-based financial labyrinth that Frank Lloyd (TIME, June 25, 1973) has built up over the years, and its American assets would probably not satisfy the judgment. In setting the contempt fine at $3.3 million, Surrogate Midonick said that Lloyd could pay it off by returning the paintings he sold to European investors and dealers in defiance of the court's 1972 injunction. But, says Harrow gloomily, this effort to make Marlborough disgorge may not work: the Rothkos involved are now worth...
Bloomingdale's salespeople know their store is the trendiest in town; their attitude: utter contempt...
Still, Kissinger had at least some encouraging news to savor late last week as he was beginning a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels: Representative Otis Pike's House Committee on Intelligence dropped a request that he be held in contempt of Congress. The Administration had angered the committee by refusing to give it internal State Department documents on U.S. covert activity abroad. But Pike finally agreed to a compromise under which the White House told the committee what was in the documents without actually handing them over. The White House's capitulation rescued Kissinger from...