Word: docs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foot. But the performers willing and able to play along drown in the gravy. Among the kings of the circuit this year are Gunsmoke's Ken (Festus) Curtis and Milburn (Doc) Stone, who drew 225,000 fans in a week at Billings, Mont. (pop. 62,000) and, at the Kitsap County (Wash.) Fair-with the local impresario's job riding on the outcome-doubled the best previous gross. "We'll be singing and jawing at each other and having a time as big as my foot," announces Festus as they reach each town. Which means declining nary...
Their show is relentlessly in character. Festus gives his goose call. Doc up and says, "My cousin's so tall she hunts geese with a rake." The delivery is always slow-motion ("You can't Bob Hope 'em," says Stone) and fair-circuit clean. About as daring as they got at the Indiana State Fair last week was the routine in which Festus reported, "I've got 'seenus' trouble." "You mean sinus," corrected Doc. "No," rejoined Festus, "I was out with a pretty little girl last night and her husband seen...
...Bishop, Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier was "honest" and "intelligent." Commenting on last year's carefully supervised election, in which Papa Doc stood alone on the ballot, Bishop wrote: "The Haitians liked him so well that they elected him President for life. This was not a spurious, rigged election. He could call one tomorrow and win easily." Bishop was equally impressed by the dictator's secret police, the tonton macoute: They "comprise a personal force whose function is to keep President Duvalier acquainted with the true temper of the people...
...eight years of power, the onetime country-doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor. The U.S. has all but suspended dollar aid, maintains only the most pro forma diplomatic relations. His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as "President for life" and wields unshakable control over his tiny country. Unlike the smoldering Dominican Republic, which occupies the other half of the island of Hispaniola, Haiti is filled only with deadening silence as hope drains away and the country lapses deeper into a zombielike trance...
Last year a handful of Haitian exiles made their way into the country and tried to rally the peasants in revolt. Nothing came of it. "Doc will stay in power,'' said a Haitian army officer in a Port-au-Prince bar. "The people know that they will be killed instantly if they get out of line." He slammed his fist on the table. "Like that," he glowered, "we will crush anyone who causes the slightest bit of trouble." And like that, Papa Doc is slowly crushing the life out of his forlorn little country...