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Into a Pittsburgh stockbroker's office last week walked a man with $300,000 in his pocket. Said he, plunking the money on the broker's desk: "Put it in Ford.'' Buy-Ford fever was running high throughout the U.S., as Ford Motor Co. prepared for the Jan. 18 launching of its first public stock sale (TIME, Nov. 14). The Ford Foundation, owner of the stock to be sold, had asked brokers and dealers to allot each customer initially no more than 100 shares. But it looked as if most customers would be lucky...
...tribesmen had often never seen a white mana harshly foreboding land of thunderous rivers and almost impassable jungles, where leeches clung to a man and drained his blood while stinking rot filled his soggy boots, where it rained 160 inches a year and nearly every Marauder shook with malarial fever...
...talk he became giddy. After waiting a month and a half to defend himself publicly, he was extremely tense and complained of feeling ill. Then-according to the American Journal of Psychiatry, reporting the case for the first time in the U.S.-Lodha had two sharp bouts of malarial fever. Finally, he fell into a deep stupor. He could have passed for a dead...
...thousands of new voters, urged on politically by the stir of conflict and prodded legally by the risk of a fine for failure to register, rushed to put their names on the polling lists. In the first four days, 1,200,000 new voters were recorded, and election fever gripped the nation. By week's end, 28 "national" parties and some 700 local "lists" had entered a total of 5,000 candidates for the Assembly's 622 seats...
...fever's center wais Pierre Mendes-France. Working feverishly to patch together in four weeks the coalition he had hoped to have six months to build, Mendes announced the formation of a "Republican Front" comprising his sector of the Radical Socialists, some ex-Gaullists, and the small U.D.S.R. But without the Socialists it would be a front without depth. The Communists, who captured one vote out of every four cast in 1951, were also wooing the Socialists with talk of a new front that could sweep them back into a position of major power...