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...Republican-controlled legislature balked, instead proposed a sales tax increase from 3% to 4%. Neither side budged. Newspaper polls showed that the public preferred a sales tax boost to an income tax, but Williams blocked a referendum. Result: chaotic insolvency...
...unsung artists. Stieglitz was so impressed that he began hanging O'Keeffe paintings alongside his Braques and Marins, and eight years later he and Georgia were married. The partnership lasted until his death in 1946, when the spotlight had already begun to shift to a wilder and more chaotic kind of abstraction than anything O'Keeffe would ever tolerate...
...that matter, does his "clear but exaggerated picture of our American society: slums of engineering, boondoggling production, chaotic congestion, tribes of middlemen . . . no patriotism, an empty nationalism bound for a cataclysmically disastrous fnish, wise opinion swamped . . . youth idle and truant, youth sexually suffering and sexually obsessed, youth without goals...
Nkrumah assiduously promoted his view that erratic Patrice Lumumba should be restored to power as Premier of the chaotic Congo, and warned newsmen that anything which damaged the prestige or authority of Lumumba's nonexistent government would "undermine the whole basis of democracy in Africa...
Chaos is never absolute. It can always get more chaotic, and last week in the Congo...