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Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, was found in contempt of court and was jailed for a short time yesterday for his refusal to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers case...
...hearing was held in Boston's Federal District Court before Judge Frank J. Murray, who ordered that Popkin be taken into custody until he clears himself of contempt by answering any and all questions put to him by the grand jury...
Among contemporary dramatists, Edward Albee has displayed some of the most seething animosity toward women. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha pours molten lava of abuse and contempt over her professor-husband George, both privately and publicly. Though he does the same to her, she has clearly emasculated him even before the action begins. Then she tries to cuckold him in their own house with his younger colleague, but in her arms the colleague, too, proves impotent. "I am the Earth Mother," she brays. "You're all flops...
...only charge which remains is one contempt charge from the original hearing...
...GOVERNMENT'S harrassment of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, has reached absurdity. Last week, government attorneys served Popkin with a contempt citation for his failure to testify before a Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers leak. Popkin--whose only apparent connection with the case is his association with Dr. Daniel Ellsberg '52--now faces possible imprisonment...