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Laos will remain "neutral" but pro-Western under Phoui's ministry. The great danger is that it will also remain corrupt, inefficiently run and economically chaotic; e.g., in 1956 the tiny country exported goods valued at $3,000,000, imported goods worth $31 million. If so, the Communists under Prince Souphanouvong will be heard from again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Phoui to the Communists | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...whole chaotic mess was right back where the Hague conference left it 28 years ago: each nation could declare its own limit, and enforce it if it could. Said Arthur Dean for the U.S.: "We stand on the three-mile limit; we will continue to do so, and we will not recognize any unilateral extension beyond that limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL LAW: The Three-Mile Limit | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...page). Arranged in such all-encompassing categories as "The Land and the Waters," "Light, Sky and Air" and "Cycles of Life and Season," they make a handsome array of abstract art that seems to add a modicum of rhyme and season to what had hitherto seemed merely decorative or chaotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NATURE IN ABSTRACTION | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...relative power of the two plays in a way simply reflects the relative force of Thomas Wolfe and Sherwood Anderson--Wolfe a chaotic, massive, but overwhelmingly vital power, and Anderson a smaller, more controlled talent. Whereas Angel as a book has the solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Winesburg, Ohio | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...incident marks one of the few victories for the English during the dismal opening months of the war, and it makes an exciting story. Unfortunately, the new English film which describes the death of the Graf Spee fritters away most of the excitement. It is an unfocused, chaotic motion picture which makes clear only that the German ship sank...

Author: By --thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Pursuit of the Graf Spee | 12/18/1957 | See Source »

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