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Giap earned his reputation with victory against the French in 1954, when he became the first modern commander to drive a white European nation out of Asia. Then he was largely unknown, except to his French adversaries, who dismissed him with St.-Cyr-bred contempt as a sometime schoolmaster who had been awarded his general's stars by Communist bush politicians. But Giap's native army defeated his far-better-equipped foe by entrapping a French force of 12,000 in the mountain fortress of Dienbienphu and liquidating it, thus destroying the will of the politicians back...
...Dietz's contempt for the experts grew with his prosperity. When he wanted electricity for the home he built on Martha's Vineyard, his lawyers told him he couldn't get it. He went all the way to the Massachusetts Public Untilities Commission and got it. When he moved to Cambridge, his lawyers told him he wouldn't be able to obtain title to the house he wanted. He went to the courts...
...TIME'S irresponsible cover story on Escobedo [April 29] should be cited for contempt of accuracy and objectivity and sentenced to the wastebasket...
...general assemblies, for example-delegates this year made it clear that condemnation must be followed by action. Noting that presbyteries in Mississippi and a few in Alabama and South Carolina have refused to receive Negro churches, the assembly warned that these bodies were "in danger of contempt and subject to discipline"-in sum, integrate or get out. The church also gave qualified approval to civil disobedience "as a measure of last resort." The Rev. Frank H. Caldwell, who was elected moderator by the assembly, acknowledged that civil rights issues "underlie a great deal of unrest and dissension" in his church...
...Richmond. They argue that credulity and immorality, together with a sophisticated taste for the primitive, are symptoms of decadence. The Daily Telegraph's Anthony Lejeune two weeks ago decried "aspects of the contemporary British scene which have not merely surprised the outside world but which increasingly provoke its contempt and derision. To call them symptoms of decadence may be facile as an explanation, but it has a disturbing ring of truth." Tradition-loving Londoners like to cite John Ruskin's eloquent description of 16th and 17th century Venice, another aging empire built on maritime power: "In the ingenuity...