Word: pandemonium
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...presided over much of the pandemonium, RCA Chairman Edgar Griffiths, 59, is himself leaving, effective July 1. The announcement of Griffiths' departure took place during another painfully familiar management and public relations muddle. Griffiths' successor will be Atlantic Richfield (Arco) President Thornton Bradshaw, 63, an outside director on RCA's board since...
...pandemonium was not the result of an outbreak of war or the death of a President. It had been caused by Joseph E. Granville, 57, a self-promoting market theorist who lives in a suburb of Daytona Beach. Last Tuesday night Granville sent messages to some 3,000 clients urging them to sell their stocks. Like Babe Ruth pointing to the centerfield bleachers in the 1932 World Series and then slamming a home run to that precise spot, Granville predicted a big stock market tumble last week and then sat back and watched it happen...
...chamber erupted in pandemonium. Tekere, barely fighting back his own tears, fell into the arms of his weeping wife. His jubilant supporters hustled him out of the courtroom and into a cheering throng of well-wishers, many of whom raised their arms in clenched-fist salutes. From upper-story windows of the courthouse, white civil servants gazed stunned and stony-faced at the impromptu fete...
...started in the kitchen of the ground-floor delicatessen. James Kalb was across the street when the conflagration broke out. "I heard this great big explosion toward the front end of the casino," he said. "Then I saw this big mass of flame, about 100 feet in diameter." Pandemonium surged through the casino, which stayed open 24 hours a day, as the flames roared up through the catwalk called the "eye in the sky," used by the management to monitor gambling. The early-morning patrons fled...
Carter knew that. Reagan knew it too. So did the powers that be in Iran. Last week, largely because the American election was at hand, the bizarre interplay between U.S. domestic politics and the pandemonium that passes for government in Iran became more feverish, preoccupying and unpredictable than ever. While Sunday's vote in the Majlis was significant and encouraging ? it was the first time that the Iranian authorities had committed themselves to letting the hostages go ? the unpleasant surprise of a phased release and the difficulty in meeting the conditions meant that once again, a breakthrough...