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GATT was designed to bring order out of a chaotic mass of trade pacts that sprang up after the U.S. Congress passed the first Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act in 1934. Under that act, the U.S. signed bilateral tariff agreements with France, Great Britain, Belgium and 26 other nations. As each of these nations signed similar agreements with dozens of other countries, a tangled net of concessions, quota restrictions, special licenses, etc. was created. To simplify matters, the U.S. helped sponsor a meeting of interested nations after World War II to write a single, broad General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
...wife who emigrate to Canada just before World War II. (Author Lewis, born in Maine when his globe-trotting parents took a cruise to the U.S., himself came to North America in World War II, stayed six years.) The book gives a shattering account of life in a rundown, chaotic, Cana dian hotel room during the convulsions of wartime. The real theme of Self Condemned is a blow-by-blow account of how a proud, independent man loses his integrity and makes a peace-without-honor with a way of life he despises. Professor Rene Harding leaves Britain because...
...Contemporary U.S. abstract art proved almost too much to take. Among the sculptures, only Richard Lippold's shimmering construction of chromium and stainless-steel wires and Alexander Calder's familiar mobiles drew much appreciative comment. French artists took a hard, professional look at Jackson Pollock's chaotic drip paintings and Clyfford Still's brooding black canvas. But most Parisians, rocked by what they considered a meaningless world, gave up trying to find anything "American" in most U.S. abstractionists...
...contribute to the cluttered but "worked-in" appearance of the five-room flat. Yet in the middle of this apparent disorder there are three carefully organized files on student movements from California to Chile. These files indicate the ambitious task of the Commission: to help bring order to the chaotic state of student organizations throughout the world...
...costing from $3.5 to $7 billion. But because of wrangling and bitter competition between public and private powermen, only three big dams are currently under construction, and no new dams have been started since 1952. The Longview, Wash. News put it bluntly: "The Northwest power situation is in a chaotic state. Almost anything would be better than what we are trying to get along with...