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Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...recognition of his status as a hero. Said United Auto Workers President R. J. Thomas: "He has been misinformed by some of the manufacturing groups. .. ." Cried U.A.W. Executive Board Member William McAulay: "We are tired of being slapped down by labor-hating people like Rickenbacker. His speech was chaotic . . . I think Rickenbacker is synthetic." From C.I.O. President Philip Murray came a more restrained comment: "I do not desire to engage in a controversy with Captain Rickenbacker. Forgive him, Lord, for he knows not what he does. . . . The members of our unions have made many sacrifices...
Immediately after the start of the war, educators were worried lent there be a repetition of the chaotic 1918-1919 system of granting blanket credit on a basis of total time in the service. During those years, colleges throughout the nation vied with each other in giving such credit, and thousands of failures resulted...
...that type of foundation (planlessness) a discussion of a labor freeze or a labor draft is not merely futile nonsense, it is dangerous nonsense. If our manpower distribution today is planless and chaotic, a job freeze simply freezes chaos...
...dowagers, prodigies and spaghetti tenors, world-famed violinists and pianists, European celebrities and art-conscious radio crooners-all intent on their big moment before the nation's most exacting (and jaded) high-brow musical audience. The Manhattan recital season was off again last week to its characteristically chaotic start. At the box office, Manhattan's ticket salesmen were jubilant. As in 1917, they reported a recital boom...