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Reed told Judge Andrew A. Caffrey that the judge had no moral right to imprison him for refusing to cooperate with the draft laws. Reed then said that he would not leave the courtroom and started to stage a sitdown...
...movie has all these things and plenty more. It has Color by Deluxe, some charmingly scummy urbs and suburbs, a hilarious "sitdown orgy for 40," and a bunch of top bananas: Phil Silvers cast as a pious pimp who combines worship and whoreship, Jack Gilford playing a collector of "erotic pottery," the late Buster Keaton doing a deadpan dad with a somewhat unusual problem: "My daughter is a eunuch...
Nobody ever accused Milwaukee Manager Bobby Bragan of lacking imagination. At one time or another, to protest an umpire's call, he has 1) fainted on the field, 2) staged a sitdown strike in the middle of the diamond, and 3) announced, then called back seven successive pinch hitters before finally allowing the game to proceed. One day last month, to back up his claim that the umps were permitting flagrant use of the illegal spitball, he deliberately ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with...
...within easier reach. In addition, she has converted the loud and soft pedals into bars extending the length of the curved keyboard. With feet freed from the center of the piano, she says, the pianist can then swing to either end of the keyboard without having to do a sitdown version of the twist...
...fire to the building of the predominantly Buddhist National Students' Union, whose members, for their part, sacked the budget department of the Information Ministry -only to apologize, explaining that they had meant to destroy the department of censorship. On the third day, 2,000 students staged a sitdown in front of Khanh's office, while agitators squatting among them denounced him as "too tricky." Finally Khanh decided to resign as President, and the 62-member Military Council announced that it would "select a new national leader." With the U.S. continuing to announce its strong support of Khanh...