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...gone from bad to worse for Gandhi, the pacifist, in recent months. India and Pakistan drifted toward war in Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
...halls. On the lookout for Communist saboteurs, troops patrolled Rio suburbs and Santos docks. Light tanks guarded the great São Paulo electric plant. Hoje, São Paulo's violent Communist sheet, was worked over by police, and masked toughies who had caught the linotype-smashing fever took on the sensational but anti-Communist tabloid A Hora...
Noel Coward, back in the U.S. on another show-business trip, put his stick away and walked upright after a shaky spell with rheumatic fever...
Some of the major producers, among them R.C.A. and Philco, were still holding out, but few radiomen thought that they would for long. The price-cutting fever had also infected the television business.* The big news came from Admiral Corp.'s hard-hitting President Ross D. Siragusa, who parlayed a backroom radio shop into the fourth biggest radio business in the country. Last week, he came out with a table television receiver (seven-inch screen), retailing at $169.95, the cheapest ever to go on sale...
...Fever. In all the optimistic bustle, there was only one area of quiet deflation: the stockmarket. The great wartime bull market had died in 1946, scared to death by fear of the recession that is not yet here. Yet the stockmarket went right on acting as if recession were just around the corner. Wall Streeters wryly quipped that New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram "was the one man in the country to reduce prices...