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...material that he deemed vital to national security. Since then, the White House has refused all requests for more documents or more high-level witnesses from the Administration. In turn, Committee Chairman Otis Pike of New York threatened last week to ask the House to cite Administration officials for contempt of Congress...
...question that remains to be answered is whether a giant corporation whose business is largely dependent on sales to the U.S. Government will be permitted to continue to act in utter contempt of the U.S. government...
...gambling and loan-sharking. Thus it was only logical for the state commission of investigation to summon him in 1970 for questioning about organized-crime activities. Granted immunity from prosecution for his answers, Catena still refused to talk, so a superior court sent him to jail. Under civil contempt procedures common to all states, Catena could have freed himself at any time by answering the commission's questions. Instead, he vowed: "They'll have to carry me out of here feet first...
...ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays him with the same sloppy self-loathing that he has frequently used to demonstrate his superiority to a role. If this contempt suits Mitchum, it ill becomes Marlowe. With the main character deep-sixed, Farewell, My Lovely loses its moral center and its dynamic...
...appearances. Reportedly among those to be questioned are a pair closely associated with the Mafia: Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, who were supposed to meet with Hoffa at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant on the day he disappeared. U.S. Attorney Ralph Guy Jr. is hopeful that the threat of contempt citations will force the mobsters to divulge at least part of what they know...