Word: disarray
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...take an alarmist of Chicken Little proportions to discern that bits of sky were falling on the Nixon Administration. The Haynsworth case, the Green Beret debacle, disarray in the Justice Department, the Republican loss in a congressional special election, bitter debate over Viet Nam-all at once all the news was bad. Yet somehow, Nixon seemed unconcerned and aloof from it all. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington Bureau chief, found that attitude perhaps as alarming as the events themselves in the most trying time Nixon has yet had in office, and offered this analysis...
...Cleanup. Once unleashed, however, the forces were difficult to harness. To this day, the nation remains in disarray. Last month, with the aid of the army, the regime launched a "big cleanup." Since then, there have been reports of mass arrests, public trials and even executions of "factionalists, reactionaries, anarchists, saboteurs and opportunists." It is unclear whether the campaign is intended simply to put China's house in order for the Oct. 1 anniversary or whether it is part of the army's larger, long-range drive to restore peace and order...
...task that the Kremlin had undertaken in convening the summit was formidable. There was considerable suspicion that the conference, expected to last two or three weeks, would turn out to be a debacle for the Soviets. Never has the Communist movement been in greater disarray. Once the undisputed fountainhead of Communism, Moscow has seen many parties grow distant and independent and others turn violently against Soviet primacy. It is not too much to say that the Russians can now command unquestioning obedience only in those countries where their soldiers can enforce...
Between the formal, intricate patterns of ballet and the exuberant disarray of folk dance lies a vast artistic chasm. Some attempts to bridge this gap have been notably successful-the cowboy ballets of Agnes de Mille, for example, or the large-scale ethnic dance companies sent around the world with in creasing frequency by almost any nation anxious to make its own culture known. One of the most dazzling of these troupes is Mexico's Ballet Folklorico, which just completed its seventh U.S. tour with a one-week stand at Manhattan's City Center. Once again it convinced...
...outset of a campaign that progressed from disarray to the brink of disaster, Hubert Horatio Humphrey confessed to close aides: "I'm dead." He was down so far he had no place to go but up. And up he went-up from a 16-point deficit in the polls, up from the chaos of the Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering...