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...last year's ten fastest-growing funds, only four exceeded $10 million in assets. Fastest rising was the Neuwirth Fund, which has assets of $94 million and achieved 90% growth. In 1967 -a year in which it was hard to do badly-Neuwirth grew 300%. But 1968, as 36-year-old Manager Henry Neuwirth says, "was more on the selective side." Neuwirth selected a number of long-depressed insurance stocks (CNA Financial, Safeco) early in the year, then rode them up as insurance companies became sought-after merger candidates...
...Shadow of Violence. Unable to carry the day by parliamentary means, the extremists coldly set out to create an atmosphere of near civil war, reminiscent of the May 1958 uprising that toppled the Fourth Republic. At midweek, Gaullist Lucien Neuwirth, World War II underground fighter, publicly charged that a "commando of killers" had crossed into France from Spain with orders to assassinate leading ministers, government officials, and newspaper editors. Police pooh-poohed the warning until Left-Wing Senator François Mitterrand, who supports negotiations with the F.L.N., narrowly escaped death in the heart of Paris, when unidentified machine gunners...
...world's current passion for eye patches and other attention-catchers, Manhattan Adman Frank Neuwirth hit upon a new one-a foot-long beard. He tried it in an ad for expensive ($7.50 to $20) Tiemaker Countess Mara Inc. (TIME, Dec. 2, 1946), and landed the store's account. In The New Yorker it was easily the ad of the week...
...Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, a U.S. Army medical officer on leave, is health adviser (TIME, Nov. 9). Smallpox, typhus and typhoid epidemics are continuous. Seven out of every ten Persian children die before they are nine years old. The Government refused to order compulsory inoculations, fearing that the hungry people would revolt. Best Neuwirth could get was inoculation of the entire Persian army. With the backing of the Prime Minister, Neuwirth has finally won approval for a closed water system to replace Teheran's open ditches, contaminated by street sweepings, garbage, dogs, horses, filthy humanity...
...Neuwirth is also using the egg-culture method in an attempt to produce the world's first vaccine against trachoma, an infectious eye disease common throughout the Middle East; and he is trying to develop a bacteriophage ("bacteria-eater") solution to treat those already afflicted. Last month the Iranian Government gave Dr. Neuwirth its first scientific decoration...