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Parisian Shakedown. The contagion of violence reached to Paris itself. There the supporters of Messali Hadj's Algerian National Movement and those of the National Liberation Front formerly directed by Cairo-based leaders such as the captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj...
...first three Manhattan schools that started chapters, 400 pupils joined up. They used small bookmobiles to take books from class to class, wrote and delivered special book reports, concocted their own book blurbs to get other children interested. The contagion spread even to the parents. Puerto Rican children brought home Spanish books for their mothers and fathers; some began teaching their parents English. Other pupils reported other results. Said one: "My mother never belonged to the public library. Now that I go so much, she has joined...
...reality of the great Dumas' life was so fantastic that Dumas' friends and enemies caught its contagion and piled reams of further fantasy upon it. Dumas' chest really was covered with medals (of what orders, he never cared), so up sprang the legend that if Dumas were spun round, further rows were revealed dangling from his back. He wrote with such rapidity that people refused to believe that he wrote at all-Dumas, they said, was just the pen name of a five-man syndicate. Dumas (who loved to out-legend his own legends) denied this...
...Stevenson decided to blow the lid off the issue of corruption in government. "Racketeers," cried Truman in describing the members of the Eisenhower Administration for the edification of fellow Democrats at the Chicago convention. Far from disavowing Harry's reckless wording, Nominee Stevenson last week charged that a "contagion of Republican misconduct and corruption . . . has marked the Eisenhower Administration from start to finish...
...quiz-show contagion has spread from the U.S. to just about every nation that boasts a TV transmitter. In Brazil contestants compete for as much as 45,000 cruzeiros ($675); in Italy it is possible to win a fat bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying...