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...Tempers flared in the Senate one midnight when Majority Leader Knowland tried to postpone the final farm-bill vote, and when South Carolina's Olin Johnston tried to attach a civil-service pay raise to California's Santa Maria River project. But in the last minute helter-skelter, it was remarkable that the Communist outlaw bill (see below) was the only piece of political deviltry to be jammed into enactment...
With travels East and West, books in his kitchen, and reams of brilliance in a shopping bag, Nock leads an active, many-sided life, ordered amid the helter-skelter. Choosing the scholar's monastic life, he has in his erratic, diverse way filled an essentially lonely pattern with lifelong friendships and warmth. For his active sense of humor extends beyond Little Audrey and limericks; it takes in his sealskin hat, his omnipresent umbrella, indeed, Arthur Darby Nock himself...
Public education had existed in Massachusetts since 1647, but "common schools," housed in pigsty style, were taught by underpaid ($185 a year for men, $65 for women), unqualified teachers using helter-skelter teaching methods; the well-to-do sent their children to private schools. This infuriated Mann, who believed that mass education was the key to successful self-government. "We need general intelligence and integrity," he cried. "Select schools for select children should be discarded...
Tautest sequence: the circus' climactic race across the guarded border in broad daylight. Under the guise of giving a parade, the whole ramshackle outfit tumbles past police watchtowers and barbed wire barricades in a helter-skelter jumble of sentry gunfire, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, performing dogs, ponies, elephants and lumbering circus wagons. At this point, the picture takes on a movingly nightmarish quality...
Even now, the retailers are again faced with a parking problem. They have not built their suburban lots large enough. In an ever-changing industry operating at a helter-skelter pace this lack of planning represents one of the crying needs of the retail trade. The business has never had and may never have the chance to catch up with itself, relax, and plan...