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...York newspapers will publish again, but they dare not go back to the same chaotic pattern of collective bargaining that produced the present shutdown," Reston wrote. "The present system is intolerable for the public, the unions and the publishers alike. The President of the U.S. cannot censor the New York papers. The Congress is specifically forbidden to abridge their freedom. But Bert Powers, the boss of the New York printers, cannot only censor them but shut them down. What is 'free' about a press that can be muzzled on the whim of a single citizen...
...colors have a weathered look as if time had washed over them again and again, giving them that frail grace that comes only with great age. Nothing is consciously organized; it is Okada's achievement that, in the end, everything still seems in place. This is the chaotic logic of a remotely remembered dream...
...hours studying the ancient temples in their garden settings. "I was overwhelmed by the serenity that can be achieved by enhancing nature," says he of those gardens. "It was here that I decided that serenity could be an important contribution to our environ ment, because our cities are so chaotic and full of turmoil." Work on the consulate general - a white structure raised slightly off the ground like a Japanese temple and surrounded by bronze and plastic sun screens- drew him to Japan again, and Yamasaki decided to go the long way and take a look at some...
...excellent quality of play in both professional and college football, Time magazine recently decided that football is the sport of the sixties. The Ivy League, delightfully out of touch with the rest of the country, apparently never got the word. Ivy football attendance remained high, but the play was chaotic, according to tradition...
Charles de Gaulle. The Presidency of the U.S. is a truly cincho job compared with running the chaotic political patchwork known as the French government. Successful execution of this formidable feat has rightly earned for De Gaulle a stature far above the various clowns, clods and posturing windbags whose incompetence as heads of state has served to keep the world in constant crisis since World...