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...Huie for contempt for trying to "bring this court into disrepute."; Huie, said Adams, had told the court-appointed psychiatrist that the judge was biased and was mixed up with local gamblers himself. Fortnight ago, at his own trial, Huie denied the charge. "You shoveled out a mess of filth and stuff of scandalous nature against a man who was dead and couldn't defend himself," said Judge Adams. When Huie grinned in court, Judge Adams snapped: "Brother, this is no matter to laugh about." He found Huie guilty of contempt, fined him $750 plus an estimated...
...revolutionary city government of Paris and began to treat inmates of the Salpétriére as human beings rather than criminals or animals. But the bedlams of the 1800s gave way only to the unspeakable "back wards" of the 1900s, where men, women and children languished in filth and darkness. Now, many states in the U.S. are striving to live down that shame. As late as 1948, Indiana ranked 40th among the states, judged by the crude yardstick, of the amount of money spent on mental patients ($1.11 a day). But last week Indiana was in the midst...
...book, cause of all the controversy, has already had some effects, however. Some of the worst of the dirt and filth it describes has been cleaned up. More important, more attention is focused upon the Negro colleges of South Carolina than ever before...
...soothe and encourage the workers. Huge portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Stalin and Malenkov glowered from the walls of the Forbidden City, and soldiers armed with automatic rifles were everywhere ("to guard against invasion from Formosa," the Chinese explained). The Socialist delegates from Britain marveled at the disappearance of filth and the smell of human refuse from the streets, wondered aloud at the absence of beggars, exclaimed over the universal refusal to take...
...book, cause of all the controversy, has already had some effects, however. Some of the worst of the dirt and filth it describes has been cleaned up. More important, more attention is focused upon the Negro colleges of South Carolina than over before...