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...read the article about the visit to the U.S. of Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouet-Boigny [May 25] and his exclamation as he got off the boat: "I am filled with emotion to arrive in this most solid democracy in the world." If this sympathetic President thinks about solidity of democracy in terms of nuclear punch, I agree with him; if he is thinking, however, of the solidity of democratic institutions, I would like to invite him and Mme. Houphouet-Boigny to Switzerland...
FERNAND BERNOULLI Swiss Ambassador to Mexico Mexico City > Let Reader Bernoulli check his address book. President and Mine. Houphouet-Boigny own a villa in Gstaad, Switzerland, and their daughter attends school there...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Ivory Coast LL.D...
African Orchid. No caged bird, but a delicious, capricious worldling, the Ivory Coast's sensuous, luxury-loving Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny, 31, delights Parisians even more than Jacqueline Kennedy or the Empress Farah. Sinuous and creamy-skinned (her grandmother was white), Marie-Therese was one of six children of an Ivory Coast customs official who sent her to France to finish high school. There she soon caught the eye of Félix Houphouet-Boigny, an able politician who even in 1956 was plainly destined to lead his country after it won independence from France...
...Houphouet-Boigny stirred a scandal and risked his career by divorcing his wife and marrying Marie-Thérèse, who is 25 years younger. Today the Ivory Coast's First Lady is coifed by one of the most exclusive Parisian hair dressers (Carita), and dressed by Dior, whose salon is strategically located across the street from the Houphouet-Boignys' apartment. She prefers pastels and bright colors and, says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted...