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Foreigners crowded Beijing's airport, trying to escape a chaotic city where tanks and troops raced along main avenues firing at random. In Washington, the State Department urged all Americans "to leave at once" and has begun to charter commercial aircraft to help evacuate civilians from Beijing and Shanghai...
...After hours of chaotic debate, the City Council votes on a measure allowing a city developer to tear down the University-owned Harvard Motor House and replace it with an office building. Critics of the move argue that the city gave away its rights on the property to Harvard and the developer too cheaply...
...confrontation between the people of the People's Republic of China and the government created a surreal deadlock -- chaotic yet tranquil, jubilant but darkly ominous. Using lampposts and bicycle racks, bands set up barricades on the avenues leading into the heart of the city. Word spread of a military plot to deploy forces via the Beijing subway system, but the plan went awry when transit workers decided to back the striking students and shut down the power supply. "The people will win!" many exclaimed. Still, the presentiment of danger always lurked, and several dozen people reportedly were injured in clashes...
After he was appointed the first black superintendent of schools in Minneapolis in 1980, Richard Green earned a national reputation as a stern and innovative educator. He thus had high hopes of muscling New York City's chaotic school system into order when he became its first black chancellor 14 months ago. But the transition from guiding 40,000 Minneapolis students to dealing with 940,000 in New York was a rude jolt...
Wiser today, and equipped with a settled, trusted staff, Lear ruefully recalls the chaotic gestation: "In the beginning, I knew nothing about the magazine business. I knew I had a good idea. Everyone told me so, but they all bet against my doing it." In addition to exasperated editors, she was confronted by battalions of advertising and research "pros." She recalls them as gnomish little men who denigrated an audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty...