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From Delhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the tough Minister for States Affairs, has hurled a challenge at the Nizam: "Accede or die." Even peace-talking Premier Jawaharlal Nehru threatened Hyderabad. With contempt he said: "It is a completely wrong notion to talk of war with Hyderabad ... If there are to be wars they must be with free countries. But ... if and when it is considered necessary we shall have military operations against Hyderabad...
...Thoreau Society of Concord, Mass. began a campaign for $30,000 to buy a house in which Authur Henry Thoreau wrote his journals and prepared his famed Walden-a work which expressed his contempt for costly, conventional houses...
...necktie and revolver. Out came his quotes; in went an editor's note that what the man said was "barred under Rule 904 of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore." The Evening Sun let its story stand, and last week "waited to see whether it would be cited for contempt of court...
...broadcasting a U.P. bulletin about a murder confession, five radio stations last month were cited for contempt. The Maryland Press Association is fighting a proposal by the Maryland Court of Appeals to extend Rule 904 throughout the state. Protested the Washington Post: "The effect is to cloak the conduct of the police in secrecy and deprive the whole public of information...
...when he launched a one-man attack on the medical setup of the Veterans Administration, he almost went to jail. He refused to name his news sources for a series of 50 articles (13 of them containing constructive suggestions, a fair Deutsch percentage) and was voted in contempt of Congress by the House Veterans Committee. But the committee backed down and Deutsch saw many of his suggestions adopted when General Omar Bradley took over the Veterans Administration...