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JUDGE TO MRS. DANIEL: This is my third reprimand to you. You are trying to speak of your motives...
Embarrassed and angry, the U.S. Olympic Committee met for four hours, then issued a strong reprimand to Smith and Carlos, and apologies to the International Olympic Committee, the Mexican Organizing Committee and the Mexican people. That might have ended the incident. But a month before the games opened, crusty, old Avery Brundage, 81, perennial chairman of the I.O.C., had warned all competitors that no political demonstrations would be permitted. That challenge helped guarantee the trouble that came, and the I.O.C. bullheadedly proceeded to make a bad scene worse. Unless U.S. officials actually punished Smith and Carlos, the I.O.C. threatened...
...Supreme Court rarely rebukes individual attorneys. But last year its unanimous, 9-to-0 reversal of the 1956 murder conviction of Cabdriver Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. carried a blunt reprimand. Miller had been accused of the brutal rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near Canton, Ill., and the high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime...
...been had. You were riding high, and it was a trick, an illusion. The silence tears rudely into your mood. In Desire it happens again and again, this abrupt transition into absolute silence. The music sets a mood; the silence destroys us. That uneven motion is Hunter's reprimand, his way of telling us that this movie means to keep us off-balance...
...February 5 meeting Parker proposed that from then on "the Bulletin editor shall make no statement to the press clamiing to represent the GSA or the Bulletin." The motion passed, but Feintuch hasn't accepted his reprimand gracefully...