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...returns means that you are handicapped in loving yourself. You have to do it vicariously through men instead. It is a servile position and servility means degradation. Depressing your ego, your healthy selfishness, to fortify a man's takes shape as a self-hatred. It is being held in contempt and squeezing that role for every gambler's gold ounce it is worth...
...such lists," said Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "but no American President. Nixon saw himself as being above the law, and those under him acted accordingly." Democratic Congressman John Brademas of Indiana agreed. "The secret plan to use federal money and federal power to harass critics is further evidence of the contempt for law and common decency that has characterized the Nixon White House. The real 'enemies' Americans must fear are those who would subvert the rule of law and the institutions of freedom...
...British public housing construction. With 46,000 copies left to print, Times editors learned that Poulson had been arrested and charged with conspiracy after a police investigation. According to British law, the instant a civil or criminal matter is formally brought before a court, newsmen risk jail for contempt if they publish more about the case than is revealed in open court. The Times felt that it had to yank the editorial from the remaining press run. In its place appeared much white space and a note explaining that the article had been rendered "potentially prejudicial...
That indignation ill-fitted a man who, with his lawyers, had earlier used the calculated news leak prolifically and adroitly in his struggle to gain immunity against criminal prosecution. His adamant position also tempted the Ervin committee to cite him for contempt of the Senate. But the committee, in rare agreement with a balky witness, conceded that Dean had every right to object. Dean felt that the unfavorable leaks could influence people to doubt him before hearing him out, while the sketchy advance revelations of his charges could reduce their impact. Stung by all of the leaks, Chairman Ervin turned...
...faces pressures at home as well as abroad. Last week the Justice Department asked a federal judge to hold the company in contempt of court un less it produces some 1,200 internal documents that the Government says it needs for a longstanding antitrust suit. The EEC too would like to see Snow White split up into several parts, even though that, admits Christopher Layton, the Common Market Commission's director for advanced technology industries, "wouldn't solve the competition problem." The solution will require an intensive sales program to convince European buyers that home-grown computers...