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...Holyoke Center cleaning woman was slightly less fond of the murals. "I suppose when he painted them, he was feeling something, but I don't," she said...
Despite this, there are plenty of leaders who, though fond of Barry, do not like the situation. They are distressed by the enthusiasm shown for him by such extreme right-wing groups as the John Birch Society. But there are some indications that that very enthusiasm is bringing many of the extremists into the regular Republican Party-and in so doing they make the party no more conservative, but rather become more moderate themselves...
...Fields was less pure than he pretended, he was a better publisher than most. Fields instituted the practice, revolutionary before the international copyright law was signed, of paying royalties to British authors. And the reader is rather fond of him when he retires from the book trade to lecture yokel audiences on "cheerfulness" and his recollections of Whittier. Historian Tryon treats his subject gently in a placid Victorian prose that is almost too well suited to his subject...
...Duvalier's tenacity has destroyed the tourist trade. Long before the expiration of his six-year term, the President made it clear he was fond of the palace and had little intention of leaving. Early in 1963 he cancelled the scheduled May election and set about fortifying his position. To make up for the half-hearted and unreliable army, the country doctor had developed a private hatchet force called the tonton macoute. Part vigilante, part mafia, the tonton macoute exercised--and continues to exercise--an unpredictable but bloody power. To replace popularity--by this time Duvalier enjoyed little--he unleashed...
...church. Surrounded by halberd-bearing Swiss Guards, borne high above the crowd on a portable chair, Pope Paul VI bobbed toward the high altar. He looked small and frail beneath his white robes and heavy red stole; his soft, graceful gestures reminded many of Pius XII. "I was very fond of John, but Paul looks more like a Pope should," an Italian student said...