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Barefoot Police. Things are almost as chaotic in the Congo's other 17 provinces, where local bush Caesars go their own anarchic ways unimpeded by central authority. In coffee-rich North Kivu, Provincial President Benezeth Moley maintains headquarters in one room of a general store, runs things with a 300-man police force recruited from local tribesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Caesars of the Bush | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...sheet. "You can come as a ghost, Harry." the teacher said. "No. 1 think I'd rather go as the circulatory system." said Harry. Without help, he covered the sheet with a good diagram of the veins and arteries for his costume. The moral: Harry-and lots of chaotic-appearing kids-are good learners but rather impatient of proving their scholarship by doing routine assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools: Classroom Communiqu | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

These "land-grant" colleges (which thus began with what many fear may be the free university's end-a grant from the federal government) have been faithful to their pragmatic ancestry, wedding agriculture and the mechanic arts to other studies to produce an academic melange that is comprehensive or chaotic, depending on one's point of view...

Author: By Robert E. Wall, | Title: University of Illinois: The State Prevails | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

...Tiger, an eccentrically violent postman named Ben grabs Gloria, a Long Island housewife, from a New York street, marches her captive to his cold-water lair, and pins her arms behind her. Rape? Murder? What is on the whirling mind of this kook? His room is a chaotic rubble of exposed steampipes, drying clothes, books spilling out of bureau drawers, and a blackboard chalked TODAY'S WORD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hourglass Plot | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...Broadway's most precious asset is its receptiveness to new ideas, and the most provocative contemporary idea in the modern theater has been the bizarre, chaotic, deeply existential attempt to find the meaning of man in a world of no-meaning threatened with a nuclear apocalypse-the theater of the absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Off-Broadway Reckoning | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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