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...Burma could solve the problem of the rebellious Karens, the chances are that it would then be able to set the rest of its chaotic house in order. The Karens, who number about 2,000,000, are a predominantly Christian (Baptist), politically rightist minority who have been steadfastly insisting that they have a semi-autonomous state within the Union of Burma. The Karens' exorbitant territorial demands include most of lower Burma...
...packed audience in Big Spring Municipal Auditorium heard was a half hour of music which made up in lyrical lustiness what it lacked in originality: a kind of chuckwagon hash-sometimes tasty-made like every cowboy-and-plains song ever written. Composer Grandstaff himself admitted, "It's chaotic in places. There are times when I get lost . . . and I use chromatics ... to get back on the track...
...language, it has won the most complete welfare program in the U.S. From a snarl of crafts and nationalities, from a rank & file in which women (considered unreliable by organized labor) outnumber men three to one, it has built one of the nation's strongest industrial unions. From chaotic conditions, where there was a strike with every season, it has brought order. It has had no major strike in 15 years...
Three years ago the Philippines formally received their independence from the U.S. By precept and practical help, the U.S. gave the new nation a great chance to build a working democracy in a chaotic Asia threatened by Communism. From Manila last week, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles cabled the following report on how the Philippines were doing...
...they dreamed and schemed about a paper or magazine that would make the world better informed about what it was doing. "People talk too much about things they don't know," Hadden would complain. What was needed, they agreed, was a medium that would organize the chaotic flow of news so that even a man from Mars could understand it. After graduation from Yale, they went their separate ways for seasoning. Luce went to Oxford and then to a reporter's job on the Chicago Daily News, and Hadden decided to work on the old New York World...