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HANOVER, N.H.--As the Winter Carnival ice sculptures begin to melt and the most hallowed Dartmouth tradition draws to a close, the remote New Hampshire campus remains impassioned and chaotic...
...long, low buildings of Concord, with their barred doors, cinder-block walls, and linoleum floors, couldn't be more different from the cozy and chaotic PLAP office. Phones ring incessantly over the classical music playing on the stereo, and office manager Daria M. Aumand's dog pads about, greeting everyone at the door...
...final days of any legislative session are always chaotic, but Congress last week seemed to be spinning out of control, its leadership almost hopelessly fragmented. Racing to adjourn for Christmas, the legislators were unable to agree on a series of spending bills that faced the threat of a presidential veto. Meanwhile, a revolt by House members of Reagan's own party sidetracked--and possibly derailed--his avowed No. 1 domestic goal: tax reform...
Perhaps the best-known retailer of gray-market goods is New York City's 47 St. Photo, which last year sold about $100 million worth of cameras, personal computers and other products through four stores and a mail-order operation. The cramped and chaotic original outlet is located in mid-Manhattan above a deli and reached by a dingy staircase. The store, though, is stuffed armpit- to-elbow with bargain hunters: pinstripe lawyers who are on their lunch hour, families in from suburban New Jersey, Japanese bankers, white-robed Egyptians, high-decibel hagglers in Spanish, Hebrew and Korean...
...retrospect, the Beatnik's chaotic lifestyles and massive drug inhalations that shook some cultural foundations thirty years ago seem rather mainstream today. Even the lifetime chronicled in Kerouac has a definable pattern: Home-City-The Road-City-Home. Kerouac ends right where he began: as other Beats point out, the stabilty of home, his mother and his father is all he sought...