Word: docs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL is Doc Simon's latest and least amusing comedy. Tony Perkins and Paul Sand play self-conscious kooks whose male stronghold is upset by a determined female square (Sheilah Wells...
Haiti probably has less to celebrate than any other country on earth. Yet last week, in a four-day binge that it could ill afford, it celebrated the 60th birthday and tenth anniversary in power of the man who has made the country the mess it is: Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's official President-for-Life and Renovator of the Nation. The task of working up a suitable celebration fell to Director General of Tourism Luc Albert Foucard, who was appointed to his job shortly after he married Duvalier's daughter Nicole last December. To prove himself...
...terrified silence. The Tonton Macoute is so ubiquitous that Haitians are afraid to talk to anyone they have not known for several years. The illiterate and docile peasants, who make up 90% of the Haitian population, believe what the government tells them-and it tells them ceaselessly that Papa Doc is their savior, to be revered on a par with Jesus Christ and Damballah, Haiti's voodoo snake...
...Only two who were invited will be absent: Bolivia's Rene Barrientos, who is angry because the question of his landlocked country's access to the sea is not on the agenda, and Haiti's Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who fears what might happen if he left home. Cuba's Castro was not, of course, invited...
...Searchers to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, have become as much a part of American tradition as those on which Ford originally drew. He has chronicled every conceivable part of the West, and his personal heroes are among the most fully realized characters in motion picture history: Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell) in Stagecoach, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) in My Darling Clementine, and the men that John Wayne played in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...