Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acts rose from less than $300 to more than $3,000 a week. Even after the Nogas sold their interest in the club last year to Max Weiss, secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's avant-garde Fantasy Records, nothing really changed. They did try to straighten out the chaotic books, but it was a foredoomed effort. Accurate accounting is apparently not a necessity for survival in the jazz world, where only a few clubs-Nick's in Manhattan and the Blue Note in Chicago-have lasted as long as the Hawk...
...crime. The categories of criminals admitted to amnesty last week included libelers, common thieves, tax evaders, those who have offered "offenses to the head of the state," first offenders serving no more than two years, pornographers, and-most controversially-Communists and Fascists convicted of political crimes during the chaotic years between 1943 and 1946 in Italy. Although political criminals make up no more than 2% of the amnestied, they include the "Red Devil" Moranino (TIME, April 30, 1956), who had taken refuge behind the Iron Curtain, and two of the men involved in the Communist wartime theft of the fabled...
...responsible only to a 500-man Consultative Council-more than half of whose members he will nominate himself. It would seem the perfect blueprint for a dictatorship anywhere except in Indonesia, whose 3.000 scattered islands, 87 million individualistic citizens, poor communications, endemic rebellions and strong regional rivalries are too chaotic to be mastered even by a tyranny...
Enterprising King Mahendra and Prime Minister Koirala are agreed on the need to put their chaotic country to rights. Tawny-skinned and brown-eyed, with a thin face and frame like that of Frank Sinatra, Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate professional father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with...
...this detailed and heavily documented book, Author Lately Thomas is concerned with Aimee's vanishing and the chaotic aftermath that reached a level of foolishness seldom matched even in that era of wonderful nonsense...