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...HELTER SKELTER...
...lands of Nassau County, just beyond the eastern limits of New York City, have been transformed by tract houses, shopping centers, neon strips and drive-ins. Today the county is 96% fully developed, and the old distinctions between town and country are completely blurred in the semiurban mess. Similar helter-skelter growth afflicts counties around every major city, from coast to coast...
...simply didn't play the kind of defense that makes champions. The man-to-man under Harrison's guidance was shoddy at best, and the Crimson coach seemed unwilling or incapable of installing effective zone coverage. As for discipline, Crimson fans saw very little of that, as Harvard's helter-skelter fast-break offense ran wild week after week, producing a phenomenal number of turnovers (as many as 38 in a single ballgame) and often giving up as many points as it netted for the Crimson. Harvard's set offense was even worse, often freezing Fitzsimmons, the team's leading...
...land-use study of the area. The study established that state-owned parcels were scattered in a crazy-quilt pattern among thousands of individual private property holdings. It turned out that about 80 of the 89 towns in the region lacked zoning rules and thus had no defense against helter-skelter development...
...Jesuits, like other factions within the church, are running blindly first in one direction, then the other. It is a helter-skelter rush past the actual problems besieging the human race. What is amazing is the polyglot of practices and beliefs attributed to the strikingly simple philosophy of one man-Jesus...