Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After nine small guerrilla invasions and as many bomb plots, some Haitian exiles feel that Papa Doc should simply be left alone to mismanage himself into collapse. Even at that, there is strong doubt that he would ever surrender office voluntarily. He is bound up almost mystically with his job, and now seems to believe the neon slogan ("I am the Haitian flag, one and indivisible") that glares above a Port-au-Prince city park. What seems more likely is that some time, suddenly, in a peculiarly Haitian way with little warning, Duvalier will be gone. Who would come after...
...answers a number of criticisms of his plan with a welter of detail and statistical data. Indeed, his plan seems almost convincing except for one point: could party machinery handle the switch to the new plan? But intra-party haggling over such a plan on a district level casts doubt on its viability. And as Hartz points out, the opportunities for gerrymandering would be magnified...
...pistol. Lee is a very funny mythomaniac. Enclosed is the moldy kinescope of that show done nine years ago: it shows I hold on to the pistol even when dead. As my father remarked, "That boy's dropped a lot of things in his life, but I doubt he would drop a pistol...
...room with a woman. Tom Carter wrote his report, which failed to satisfy his superiors. On Aug. 26 he was fired from the FBI for "conduct unbe coming a member of this Bureau." The hapless clerk then confided his troubles to an attorney, who wrote to the FBI expressing doubt about the rationale behind Carter's firing. J. Edgar Hoover, an unmarried male himself for 71 years, replied personally: "The action involuntarily separating Mr. Carter from the FBI was based on a careful review and evaluation of the facts which established his improper conduct, and it is felt that...
...France's Singing Idol Charles Aznavour wryly impersonates a crook-turned-cultist whose swami act is last seen floating in the Seine, and Veteran Actress Françhise Rosay rabbets in some surprises as a hardened crone who rents out high-powered burglary tools by the hour. Any doubt that the female is the deadlier of the species is dispelled by shapely Irina Demick, who shows up rather late as an art gallery receptionist all abustle with her own bright ideas about framing. A sweet and submissive mantrap, Irina ultimately makes away with an art collection, most...