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Congress agreed, and appropriated $2.4 million for an undertaking that the curators had always regarded as impossible, if not downright laughable. The nation's attic was as badly organized as the average homeowner's; junk and jewels had been piling up helter-skelter since 1846, when Congress founded the Smithsonian with a $500,000 bequest from James Smithson, an Englishman who left his estate to establish a national museum...
...contest with Jenkins, 61, who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, deputy party leader and president of the European Commission, Williams has some disadvantages. Although celebrated for her eloquence, sincerity and thoughtfulness, critics fault her for a reluctance to make tough decisions and for her helter-skelter ways. But she has one singular advantage over Jenkins. Before the leadership decision is made late next year, he will have to win a seat in Parliament. Jenkins, the first to run under the new S.D.P. banner, narrowly lost a by-election in Warrington last July to a Laborite...
Houston's helter-skelter development has a troublesome side. Traffic is becoming a round-the-clock snarl, and 1,000 more cars and trucks drive onto the city's potholed roads every week. Houston has badly mismanaged its water supply. Flooding is routine. Parts of the city, built over increasingly depleted underground water, have sunk as much as a foot since 1973. Concedes James Ketelsen, chairman of Houston-based Tenneco Corp.: "Houston lacks the forward planning and leadership to keep up with services. It's obvious the city hasn't kept pace with growth." The city...
...spring of 1980, when thousands of Cubans were mobbing the port city of Mariel for their helter-skelter exodus to the shores of Florida, President Fidel Castro denounced the emigrants as escoria (scum). As if to ensure that he was at least partly correct, Castro added some convicts and mental patients to the Mariel horde. Indeed, of the 125,000 "Marielitos" who landed in Florida, 1,709 have been jailed by federal authorities as undesirables, and 587 more have been locked up until they can find sponsors. Nearly all the rest have settled in Dade County, which includes Miami...
...free of the fussy overproduction that characterized so much of '70s music. They have a big beat and hummable melodies-a throwback to the '60s. But what she purveys is not nostalgia, even though she includes in her act such songs as the Beatles' Helter Skelter-"That's what we heard when we were teething," she explains. "You can't escape...