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Also, Liston is not a full-time physical fitness type. So far he has always been in condition for fights, but he lives well in-between. If Liston believes, like most of the boxing public, that his challengers are beneath contempt, what is the rationale for running ten miles...
That occasioned the first of George Wallace's several retreats in the face of federal authority. The federal judge was Frank Johnson Jr., an old university buddy and he again ordered Wallace to produce the records. Wallace refused. Johnson then issued a show-cause order, threatening Wallace with contempt. There ensued a hearing, after which Johnson dismissed the contempt citation-on the ground that Wallace had in fact "through devious methods assisted said agents in obtaining" the records. To this day, Wallace insists that it did not happen that way. "This Washington crowd had the federal judge back down...
Dodging stones, a British military attaché showed his contempt for the mob by parading in front of the embassy playing his bagpipes. In his glass-strewn office, Ambassador Gilchrist finally received a delegation of the rioters. A blunt, spade-bearded Scot who once dispersed an anti-British mob in Iceland by playing Chopin records from a phonograph set in his office window, Gilchrist explained to the rioters that the United Nations had sanctioned Malaysia, dismissed them with a contemptuous "Hidup [long live] U Thant...
Miming, dancing, and singing the lovely old songs of The Great War, Miss Littlewood's actors lightly trace its course. National leaders disclaim any thought of war and then whip out their offensive plans--just in case. Allied generals hold each other in highest contempt, refusing to speak the other's language--until they receive medals. And the audience remembers that "Its a Long Way to Tipperary." But in the background a neon sign chronicles the facts: ALLIES DEFEATED--150,000 CASUALTIES, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT--30,000 DEAD IN THE TRENCHES...
...could not last. His boss was a man called Beamish of whom he writes: "I was frightened of Beamish as I was frightened of all elderly administrators, officials, policemen, colonels and judges. There is a perpetual net for the butterflies. They can catch you for arson, witchcraft, sodomy, soliciting, contempt, vagrancy. They can prove you without means of support, unborn or dead. They can bury you in unconsecrated ground. You have to fly very hard to keep in the sun." Beamish finally demoted him with the memorable words: "You write doggerel and have been interfering with Mrs. Stoat." (Mrs. Stoat...