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Until he came to Chicago, Ike Eisenhower had never been within buttonholing distance of a national political convention. But he caught the fever almost from the moment he forted up in his suite at the Blackstone Hotel on Saturday before the big show began. And like anyone else at his first convention, Ike discovered that some mighty odd characters are swept along by the human tides that flow noisily in & out of political headquarters...
Last week Harry Truman boarded an Air Force Constellation in Washington and headed for Arkansas, His prime objective was the dedication of the big new Bull Shoals Dam on the White River. But he succumbed to campaign fever almost as soon as he breathed the hot summer air of the outlands...
Money Machine. On top of all this, the Government began to raise the inflation fever by pouring billions into the nation's credit system. It floated last week the biggest Government new bond issue since 1945. Thus the Government started a big expansion of credit, the basis of all the post-war inflation...
...Germany's 48 million people should have been elated over their change of fortune. But in what passes for German civilization in A.D. 1952, usual standards do not apply. In the week that brought it freedom and partnership with the Western democracies, West Germany was afflicted with a fever of doubts, fears, misgivings and unsatisfied yearnings. It was a complex state of mind that defied diagnosis and eluded a label. It was not simply "neutralism" or "nationalism" or "contrariness" or the cynical fatalism of ohne mich (count me out), but a combination of many things. Professed horror...
...rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that would "dislodge the most reluctant baby...