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...Claude rose in his father's place and accepted the salute. The army's general staff was furious. Out went the general staff, along with the Port-au-Prince police chief. In as chief of staff came Brigadier General Claude Raymond, 40, Papa Doc's tough godson, who previously commanded the presidential guard, the military academy and the deadly Tonton Macoutes, the secret police. If Jean-Claude is to make it to the top, he will probably have to stand on the willing Raymond's shoulders...
...definable, detestable enemy-like Hitler, say-who could always be defeated by the forces of justice. The national instinct to juxtapose good and evil is summed up with only a touch of irony by W. H. Auden's nostalgic reference to simpler times in his Epistle to a Godson...
...Grateful Godson. The first weekend's crowd of 50,000 people cared not a whit. They loved Astroworld-just the way the judge* knew they would. Hofheinz' goal is to create an area where the whole family can come for a week and never need leave. To this end, he has spent $16 million on fun rides like the swirling Black Dragon, a 340-ft.high Astroneedle, a frontier village and outdoor air conditioning. Moreover, he is not permitting any haphazard development on his Astro domain. The four-motel complex that will open this fall is owned by him (although...
...this should sound familiar. Astroworld is a godson of Disneyland. The late Walt Disney blessed Hofheinz' borrowed philosophy of fun for the family. "The Disneyland people helped us on Astroworld every time we asked," says the judge gratefully. "They suggested ways of doing things so we could avoid what they learned the hard...
...there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough, was provided by the orchestra of society's pet pianist, Peter Duchin, who is Averell Harriman's godson. And even in the crush of Paris designs, Duchin's wife, Cheray, glowed like a Botticelli blonde on the half shell...