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...fans who filled the Bowl in New Haven for last year's Harvard-Yale game saw the Crimson march to a chaotic but decisive victory. The ball changed hands on fumbles and interceptions eleven times, both teams failed to get off fourth down punts because of bad passes, there was a brawl in the final minutes of the game, and Harvard walked off with a 27-0 win and a share of the Ivy Championship...
When the governor and lieutenant governor belong to different parties, and the lieutenant governor's party has a majority in the legislature, governmental machinery becomes chaotic every time the governor leaves the State. Such hasty, unwise legislation as that which reached Lt. Gov. Edward McLaughlin each time Republican Gov. John Volpe crossed the state line cannot be tolerated any longer...
Most other college J.V. teams are formed in the same way. As a result. Junior Varsity games are usually chaotic and confusing. Often the games are not played. Four colleges on the Crimson schedule this fall postponed their games at the last minute because they were unable to field a team...
Underwood's figures give a first impression of having been created by a slightly dotty humorist. They cavort and prance, leap and fly, as if under the spell of a pleasantly chaotic orchestra. At times the rhythms become so frenetic that the small figures look as if they might shake themselves apart. Yet the surface humor quickly peels away to reveal more serious intentions underneath. Underwood's sculptures are expressions of ideas, some of which he transforms into dances of joy and some into gestures of despair...
...cover story on Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, Der Spiegel reviewed September NATO military exercises, reported signs of chaotic neglect in West Germany's civil defense organization, and argued that the country's NATO troops were in a dismal state of unpreparedness. Practically all Der Spiegel's evidence was classified "top secret," a fact duly noted by West German Acting Federal Prosecutor Dr. Gerhard Wesgram in Karlsruhe...