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...walkout, thereby shutting down the facility. Secretary of State for * Information Aubelin Jolicoeur only made matters worse by going on the radio and declaring that the strikers were ''without honor.'' Said he: ''If I saw them, I would spit in their faces.'' The government's action in the TV case led to violent demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and several other cities. Protesters blocked highways by erecting burning barricades. Along the Harry Truman Sea Drive in the capital, angry youths hurled rocks and pieces of iron at passing motorists. Observed Port-au-Prince Businessman Roger Savain: ''Any country that...
...cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went wild. For a moment it seemed that television itself had brought about this triumphant turn of events. And in a way, it had. A week earlier the case of Baby Jesse had become a cause celebre, when officials at Loma Linda University Medical Center, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, had refused to consider the infant as a candidate for transplant. The hospital had apparently concluded that Jesse's young, unwed parents--Deana Binkley, 17, and Jesse Sepulveda...
...Sepulveda has a record of arrests for drunk driving, and had been through a ''substance abuse'' treatment program. Though he downplays these problems, Sepulveda says, ''I do think that Loma Linda had good reasons to turn us down.'' Another ethical issue was brought to light by the Baby Jesse case: the growing role of the media in determining who gets organs. Frank Clemenshaw, 22, and Deborah Walters, 33, the Michigan couple who donated their baby's heart to Jesse, admitted they had been moved to do so by televised reports on Jesse and his parents. ''Our baby could not live...
...experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled twelve-year-old in short pants, union card or no union card. ''Keep away from the instruments, kid!'' they shouted. ''Get off the boat!'' Undaunted, the lad took out his horn and started to play. Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined Bix Beiderbecke's band. From that humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing...
...everything an Ivy Leaguer should: worked as a volunteer for Jack Kennedy, made TV commercials, served a stint on LIFE magazine. ''The black bourgeoisie,'' she writes, ''took great pride in its separateness from ordinary black culture.'' It was Lena redivivus, including marriage to a white man--in this case Director Sidney Lumet, the ex-husband of Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like news from another planet. The Supreme Court decision desegregating schools had less significance than a scene in Las Vegas featuring an infatuated Marlene Dietrich pursuing Frank Sinatra. The year Rosa Parks refused...