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Elliott fell in love with politics along with the rest of his town when popular local physician Otis "Doc" Bowen ran for governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican...
SHANA Alexander's Very Much a lady is not the first book on the murder of Scarsdale's "Diet Doc" Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...
...information at her fingertips, her prose style is swift and pleasing. She handles a story well, and her melodramatic style suits this story in particular. Once Jean Harris begins to find her clothes slashed to pieces and splashed with Mercurochrome and begins to collect her rival's homemade "Super-Doc" badges and shred them into he backyard pool. Alexander is in her element...
Halti represents a similar case; Reagan last year increased the millions spent upholding the bloody reign of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Davaller, Halti's so-called President-for-life. "Baby doc" rules the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere by military force, torture, and illegal improvement. Thousands of refugees fled to America to escape the crushing poverty and government terror, the President ordered them jailed, and instructed the Coast Guard to turn back boatloads of freedom-seekers...
BORN. To Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, portly President for Life of Haiti, and Michele Bennett Duvalier, 31: their first child, a son and heir apparent to the dictatorship set up by his grandfather Papa Doc; in Port-au-Prince. Name: François Nicolas Jean-Claude. Weight...