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...have only to ask for independence," said Charles de Gaulle two years ago as he sought to abate the fever of African nationalism by organizing France's African empire into a Community of autonomous states. De Gaulle frankly hoped and expected that most of the colonies would prefer to settle for autonomy within the French Community. But twelve members have disconcertingly taken him at his word, and France has accepted the situation with grace. Last April, the Malagasy Republic on the island of Madagascar and the Mali Federation, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal...
Catapulted into the political big time by the spectacular feat of unseating an incumbent Democratic Governor in a year when most Republican candidates got roundly trounced, Rockefeller began showing the unmistakable flush of presidential fever. And since Richard Nixon already towered up as the almost certain Republican presidential nominee in 1960, Rockefeller's presidential hopes inevitably made Nixon a competitor, apart from any disagreements on national issues...
...from the Minnesota delegation. Following a moving speech by Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey flipped from Kennedy to Adlai; Junior Senator Eugene McCarthy was more than ever madly for Adlai; and Governor Orville Freeman, fresh from a vice-presidential tour of Kennedy's Apartment Q, had a raging Kennedy fever...
...Heat Stroke. The body temperature soars to 106° or higher; sweating stops and leaves the skin hot, dry and flushed. Warning signs include fever, headache, restlessness, thirst, and absence of sweating. Treatment is drastic, and the physician must not leave it to the nurses. Most effective is to put the patient in an ice bath until the rectal temperature drops to 101°. If shock sets in, the patient will need intravenous fluids, plasma and drugs to boost the blood pressure. Mortality ranges from...
Shakespeare died five years later, at 52, of unknown causes-though one 17th century chronicler reported that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Anne outlived him by seven years, and asked to be buried in the same grave, but the authorities dared not flout Shakespeare's doggerel epitaph...