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...judge ruminatively decided that Lewis' union might still have to pay the whole $3,500,000 contempt fine, which Goldsborough had slapped on last December, if Lewis did not behave himself and show that he was acting "in good faith." The union had only been required so far to cough up $700,000 of it. The judge would wait and see how Lewis and the miners behaved themselves during the next few weeks...
...timid, the incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt and are subject to prying and coercion in their private lives-and are, as a rule, subject to threats and to firing without any possible means of self-defense...
...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
Snapped Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas: "Never mind about the color of your eyes; you are out of order." Thomas ordered a subpoena served on Dennis to appear again on April 9. If he failed to answer, he could be held in contempt of Congress...
...Geez," sighed the admiring sound-effects man, "whatta warmup!" The comedian had long since expressed his contempt for his own skill in that field: "Warming up a studio audience is like warming up dry ice. When you've done it, what have...