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...wake, the 98th Congress left a helter-skelter of dead bills. Among the principal casualties was a long-overdue reform of the nation's immigration laws, the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Also abandoned was a civil rights measure that restated the intent of Congress, in the aftermath of a contrary Supreme Court ruling, to deny all federal funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps...
...cover story, "Accusing the Press: What Are Its Sins?", more than 500 sided with the press's critics. "For too long now," said one letter writer, "the news media have run helter-skelter past reasonable boundaries of responsible reporting, disrupting the lives and privacy of individuals and jeopardizing the security of this nation." TIME itself was not exempt from the general condemnation ("Shame on you for a cover story devoid of any mention of TIME gaffes and insensitivities"), though some readers praised the magazine for tackling the issue headon...
...translate economic figures into economic reality. "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," Stockman told Washington Post reporter Williams Greider in Greider's book The Education of David Stockman. "What was revealed," writes Greider, "...was a kind of natural anarchy, a helter-skelter sequence of events normally concealed from public view. Is no one in control even at the highest levels of power? Is that how government really works...
...circumstances that oppose it? It hardly seems likely. One has no guarantees that the self will have prevailed in our time, and in any case no force in this century has so opposed the individual conscience as the individual conscience. The mind unleashed has as often run helter-skelter over its fellows as it has advanced their wellbeing. True, few periods of history have so concerned themselves with moral problems, but few have done so much to create them. It would be heartening to think that as a result of these 60 years the individual finally managed to come...
...been nearly 20 years since the four Brits landed in the U.S. and tumbled helter-skelter into a Manhattan hotel suite, high above police barricades where hundreds of girls were squealing their way into Beatlemania. Pubescent girls, New York City saw last week, are still crazy after all these years: on streets around a midtown hotel, dozens of cops oversaw hundreds of squealing, hysterical teens who were simply dying for a glimpse of the dreamboat singers upstairs. The 80,000 tickets for the group's four concerts last weekend at Madison Square Garden were sold out three days after...