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...setup confers enormous power on the COLC's Dunlop. He has frank contempt for "magic numbers"; he once called the idea that all wage boosts should conform to a single numerical standard "hogwash." He prefers to weigh each case individually and relies on head-knocking by private negotiation rather than fiat by issuing orders...
Britain's newspapers, meanwhile, have been severely circumscribed in their reporting on the case since the first suit was launched against Distillers in 1962. Any editor who dares comment on a case sub judice risks being held in contempt of court and sent to jail indefinitely. The silence was broken last fall, when Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans published the first five articles of a planned six-part series on the children's plight. Evans escaped jail when Britain's Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, tortuously ruled that the articles already printed were not in contempt...
...Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle-riding contempt for the clan rituals of Hollywood signaled the end of the star system as it had flourished till then...
Parochialism. The pre-Christmas quake has revived the old rivalries. To illustrate its contempt for the efficiency of Somoza's Managua-based administration, Granada sent out its own ham radio call for aid; sure enough, a few days later a plane from Houston landed at Las Mercedes loaded with food and medical supplies marked for transshipment to Granada. On a less parochial level, many Nicaraguans agree with Managua Architect Samuel Barreto that a new capital should be located elsewhere if only to "spread the life of the nation throughout the country...
Popkin was jailed for a week last November for contempt after refusing to answer what he termed "irrelevant" questions before a U.S. grant jury in Boston investigating the Pentagon papers. Popkin said that the questions asked for "confidential sources," and based his defense on the first' amendment, which protects freedom of the press...