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...mountain road, F.L.N. rebels killed a French army chaplain, two soldiers and four nurses. The morale of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans sank lower. There were few purchasers for anything that could not be easily carried. Sales of autos were down as much as 90%. A tractor firm, which a year ago was selling ten machines daily, sold only eight in an entire month. Algiers' shopkeepers saw the abrupt end of a six-year business boom, grumbled that this month was "the worst January we've ever had." Apartments stand empty and houses are offered...
...Smithfield Show, Britain's largest agricultural exhibition, is normally a roistering barnyard symphony of bleats, moos and grunts. But this year virtually the only sound to be heard in the show grounds at London's cavernous Earl's Court was the occasional roar of a tractor. For the first time in memory not a single animal was competing for the Smithfield's blue ribbons. The reason: one of the most virulent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in modern British history...
Montana. In Montana, where Senators are usually liberal Democrats, the Governor as often as not is a middle-of-the-road Republican. Plodding, unspectacular Donald Nutter, 44, seems to be a typical G.O.P. statehouse product. A war hero (B24 piloting in the China theater) turned small-town tractor salesman, stocky, cigar-smoking Don Nutter served two workhorse terms in the state senate, in the process developed from a cautious reactionary to a conscientious, business-minded liberal with a host of friends and supporters throughout the state...
...named Henry Ford; apparently of a heart attack; in his remote stone mansion near Stow-on-the-Wold, England. A farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for worldwide peace and plenty, tinkered early with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford II in 1948 for $341,600,000 for Dreaking the oral tractor deal, settled four years later for $9,250,000. Said Ferguson...
...while selling newspapers to help support his family. At 14, after the Nazis invaded France, Andre lost his parents to the gas chambers, subsequently escaped a French internment camp to join the Maquis, and was finally mustered out of the French army at an underage 17. As a postwar tractor-factory worker, he voraciously read detective novels until he was decoyed one day by the title Crime and Punishment, which revealed to him that "one could 'put into thoughts' things which happened inside us." After a two-week stab at the Sorbonne, Andre was profoundly disillusioned with education...