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...guerrillas in a country only slightly larger than Malaya. Just across the 17th Parallel lies Communist North Viet Nam, which eagerly sends men and munitions down jungle trails to the south. Beyond North Viet Nam lies Red China, and to the west, sharing a 150-mile jungle border, lies chaotic Laos, where last week the Reds took another stronghold. In Laos, U.S. policy appears exactly opposite that in South Viet Nam. The border is held by the Communist Pathet Lao, and Soviet transport planes daily land supplies at Tchepone. close to the frontier. It is madness, argues Columnist Joseph Alsop...
Before the Frost reading, which all but alleviated the Advocate's problems, the magazine's situation was almost desperate. Its publishing schedule was practically non-existent, there was no printer's deadline, and the subscriptions and circulation had become increasingly chaotic...
...obviously wasn't easy. Cole Porter's score, except for "C'est Magnifique," "It's All Right With Me," and "I Love Paris," is not one to make hearts beat wildly. The book, by Abe Burrows, is chaotic, and the entire show proceeds at a lurch. If there is any greatness to be found in Can-Can it is in the spirit of the thing. At Winthrop, the atmosphere may not be that of Paris in 1893, but it is a wonderful spirit nonetheless...
...empire which, besides banana lands in eight tropical American countries, included cattle ranches, thousands of acres in sugar cane, cacao and oil palm, 1,380 miles of railroads, 55 ships, a sugar refinery and a communications network (Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.). He also found himself saddled with a chaotic organization in which three men might be working on the same project without being aware of each other's existence. The company also suffered from memories of the freewheeling days when it was run by the late Sam ("The Banana Man") Zemurray and in the eyes of nationalistic Latin Americans...
...most ambitious message on transportation that any President has addressed to Congress, Kennedy proposed an entire complex of fresh laws to replace "a chaotic patchwork of inconsistent and often obsolete legislation." The President sought to spur the U.S. Government into a coherent and long-overdue adjustment to the changing economic facts of life in the transportation business...