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...nowhere flashed the rumor, sweeping across Capitol Hill, lighting up switchboards, sending Democratic congressional aides running helter-skelter to newsmen with the breathless question: "Anything from the White House...
...year through the old and perfectly legal custom of confidenciales-a confidential fund that he could spend as he saw fit. With paternal pride, Castillo launched ambitious health-and-education programs, plastering the country with signs urging peasants to "Wash Your Hands Before Eating." To replace Arbenz' helter-skelter expropriation of rich plantations, he started a gradual system of land reform. But in the backlands, rightist planters scaled pay down 30% from the Arbenz rates...
...were most other Senators, but the helter-skelter attacks on the Middle East resolution continued, ranging from Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse's legalistic pedantry ("I am waiting for the opposition point of view to provide some answers before I proceed to rebuttal and surrebuttal and rebuttal of the surrebuttal") to Indiana Republican William Jennet's naked cynicism ("Here is the Walter Mitty dream plan for an easy, effortless world"). It remained for two Democrats, one seeking a drastic change in the resolution and the other making an eloquent plea for its adoption without amendment, to flag down...
Hall knotted the contest near the three-quarter mark in the third stanza, and the game turned into a helter-skelter battle for a winning goal which lasted until the end of regular play...
Strange Allies. At first the helter-skelter mobs that raged through Ahmedabad's streets were led by Gujarati students. But as the days wore on and the death toll mounted to 18, there emerged a strange coalition of forces, united only by their interest in fishing in troubled waters. Indian Communists, who a few weeks earlier had been denouncing the Gujaratis as "moneybag oppressors" of the Marathas, now rushed to champion the Gujarati cause. Local Socialists jumped on the bandwagon. And huffing and puffing alongside these leftist troublemakers were Gujarati businessmen and mill owners who foresaw difficulties in handling...