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...location of Haiti because of the novel's distinct unfriendliness toward Haitian Dictator Francois Duvalier, Comedians' Producer-Director Peter Glenville and his company found a surprisingly exact replica in Dahomey. Cotonou is a jerry-built outcropping of grandiose, half-filled government buildings and a splendid four-lane boulevard that runs straight and proud to the weeds and sand at the city's edge. The one major difference is that Dahomey's strongman, President Christophe Soglo, held out the warm hand of friendship-and frank financial interest...
...Peru? Not quite. It's a sweater, and it's the latest style in Paris-not exactly from the showrooms of Courrèges or Balenciaga, but hard to miss on the mesdemoiselles at Castel's discothèque or in Le Drugstore on the Boulevard St. Germain...
There was more symbol than substance in the move. Outside the buildings on Sofia's Alexander Stambolisky Boulevard and Budapest's Freedom Square, the LEGATION signs will be taken down as quickly as EMBASSY signs can be found. In both Communist capitals, U.S. ambassadors will replace lesser-ranked envoys. Thus, in agreeing with Bulgaria and Hungary to exchange ambassadors and upgrade legations to embassies, Lyndon Johnson laid in place another span of roadbed for the ever-lengthening "bridges across the gulf" that he is attempting to build between the U.S. and the Communist countries of Europe...
...castles are impeccably constructed and the faces of the principals (Peter McEnery and Susan Hampshire) are so nice that they make a theater feel like church. Anybody who sees any redeeming historical merit in this agreeable guff would believe that the River Shannon flows down the middle of Sunset Boulevard...
...Yellow Tiles. Sofia, once the dreariest of East-bloc capitals, has already taken on a new vigor and vivacity. A burgeoning fleet of privately owned automobiles now dominates yellow-tiled Russki Boulevard, having driven into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic. Red Coca-Cola trucks bustle about town, carting the bubbly produce from three local bottling plants. In such cafes as the Astoria and the Alenmak, where only two years ago the twist was a reform-school offense, big-beat music blares from well-stocked jukeboxes (current...