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Charges were later dropped against Frances Carter, but she was imprisoned again from contempt of court when she refused to testify at Scale's bail hearing earlier this month...
...debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation): on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were later dropped): once, in 1968, on conspiracy charges connected with the 1968 Chicago demonstrations (the case was declared a mistrial but Seale was given four years for contempt of court); and finally, on August 19, for murder, kidnapping, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...
...April 14, Party Chief of Staff David Hilliard and Minister of Culture Emory Douglas were handed a summary sentence of six months for contempt of court after a scuffle with marshals who had grabbed from them a note written by Seale. A week later the judge commuted the sentences to "time served" and ordered the two released after they-and Seale-made public apologies to the court for the outburst. At that time. Seale pledged to "maintain decorum" in the court-room. "I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. I pledge allegiance to liberty and justice," he said...
...creative. Why then were the Harvard guys always the more creative musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard society, laughed at the Radcliffe grindiness guarded a secret contempt for our sisters who were insecure enough to work hard, and strove to be part of male society...
...think life's easy with Momma." Like many another line in the play, it lingers in the air with Chekhovian sadness, like a note struck on an unseen piano. Even though Myron is U.S.-born, he is a prototype of the immigrant father who was held in contempt if he failed economically, and derided as a philistine if he succeeded, often by the son whom he had slaved to educate and thereby ended by alienating...