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...Sharma last week in the first interview she has granted to a foreign publication since her dramatic defeat six months ago. But she refused to answer any questions about specific cases before the courts and government commissions of inquiry on the ground that she might be held in contempt of court. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...
...Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, 71, who was appointed counsel to the House ethics committee in July, held his first meeting with the panel and declared bluntly, "I advise those who may believe that the investigation will blow over or prove fruitless to take a closer look." Then, threatening a contempt citation, he got close-mouthed Girl-About-Town Suzi...
...Johnson an aristocratic conservative. Wallace grabbed headlines in 1959, when, as a lameduck state judge he made a public show of defying a Johnson order to turn over voting lists to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Johnson later found that Wallace had cooperated with the authorities, and dropped contempt charges against him. But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962. As the years passed, Johnson's intervention in .he workings of state government so emasculated Wallace's authority that some observers began calling Johnson "the real Governor of Alabama...
...agers on charges ranging from auto theft to narcotics violations. Most of the arrests are made in the new discos and coffee shops, many appealing to homosexuals, that have filled the entertainment vacuum left after the demise of such nightclubs as the Trocadero and the Mocambo. Hickman speaks with contempt of the masochists who keep repeating, as policemen handcuff them, "I love it, I love it." Says he: "Our policemen feel they are taking part in a perverted...
Movable Scar. At a guess, it is fa miliarity with the social usages of his na tive England and the accumulated non sense of the medium in which he works that generate the affectionate, and effective, contempt animating the first portion of Feldman's film. Even when he and it move further afield, following the disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given...