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After Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend cried persecution and flounced out of a House investigating committee room last spring (TIME, June 1), the House boldly voted to charge him with contempt, then discreetly proceeded to let the matter lapse until after election. Soon as the old pensioneer's political pretensions had been destroyed at the polls last month, the U. S. District Attorney in Washington sprang into action. Last week a grand jury indicted Dr. Townsend for contempt of the House. Also indicted were two onetime aides, Clinton Wunder and John B. Kiefer, who, on Dr. Townsend...
...Payson Terhune in Reader's Digest last summer (TIME, Aug. 17), "nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalin through your system. This throws off an odor . . . which human nostrils fail to detect. Dogs, however, hate it. It rouses some of them to rage; in others it inspires only contempt. Many an otherwise inoffensive dog will attack when that odor reaches...
...Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
...Governor Ruby Laffoon made him his Adjutant General. Last year, defying a court order, he marched his Guardsmen into bloody Harlan County to supervise the Democratic primary, charging that the forces of Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler were planning to steal votes from the Laffoon-backed candidate. Cited for criminal contempt of court, he hid for days, issued defies to Harlan County authorities, was pardoned by Governor Laffoon before going to trial. When Governor Chandler took office, General Denhardt retired to his 800-acre farm near La Grange...
...practical matter, the rule has broken down in several instances. It is hard for House officials and janitors to muster any enthusiasm for a regulation which the majority regard only with the greatest contempt. A rule, unpopular alike with administrators and students, certainly has no chance of enforcement...