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...been that the carnival world is rapidly changing and that crooked games and illegal activities are becoming quite rare. Like the circus before it, the carnival is today largely a "Sunday school" operation. In any case, the vast majority of carnival personnel have little involvement in-and often great contempt for-the illegal activities that go on in carnivals...
...chef, but he had to attend another meeting of the reserve bank, and then he moved on to the garbage business in Maryland ($2.50 an hour). As he hauled away, he sometimes called out greetings to the local residents, but most of them ignored him. "There's enormous contempt for garbage men," Coleman remarks...
...secrecy is as serious a threat to a free society as wiretapping. "Complacency about this problem," declares Vanderbilt University Professor Harry Howe Ransom, "can destroy the nation." In view of Daniel Ellsberg, who should know, people who have access to Government secrets tend to develop an "arrogance and contempt" for people who are not similarly plugged in. It is obvious that this criticism is not limited to the Nixon Administration; one has only to recall the way Lyndon Johnson used to chuckle over the FBI dossiers of friends, foes and the famous alike...
...could be used against the leaders themselves. Immunity was forced, for example, on Chicago Mob Boss Sam Giancana, against whom it had been impossible to get any criminal conviction. When Giancana still refused to talk to a grand jury, he had to spend a year in prison for contempt until the grand jury expired...
...situation was exacerbated, moreover, by the strategy that the Ten employed when they were called as witnesses in 1947. Membership in the Communist Party was not illegal. They decided, therefore, to challenge Congress's right to inquire about their political affiliations at all. They were cited for contempt of Congress and indicted by a grand jury. The Supreme Court refused to review the case...