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...Kennedy was obviously not in a retiring mood, and proved it during his White House reception for Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouet-Boigny and his stunning wife, Marie-Thérèse. There, Kennedy mixed politics, protocol and humor. Seated between Mme. Houphouet-Boigny and Mme. Ernest Boka, wife of the Ivory Coast Supreme Court Chief Justice, he regaled both women in his Boston-accented French. He even inquired about the designer of Mme. Houphouet-Boigny's dress; informed that it was by Balmain, Kennedy observed that this would disappoint Dior...
President John Kennedy had dispatched Brother Bobby to the Ivory Coast as a gesture of friendship to one of Africa's most European-minded rulers: President Félix Houphouet-Boigny. The Ivory Coast was celebrating its first anniversary of independence after more than a century of French rule. Arriving in Abidjan, capital of the New Mexico-sized nation of coffee and cocoa plantations, Attorney General Kennedy was met at an airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy...
Though the host and chairman was President William Tubman of Liberia, the man chiefly responsible for the conference was Félix Houphouet-Boigny (pronounced hoof-K>^ boyn-yee), 55, President of the flourishing Ivory Coast. A physician and plantation owner who served for 13 years in the French Assembly before his country became independent, Houphouet-Boigny is a sharp contrast to the rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and he is slowly gaining respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived...
Behind the scheme lay the fear that twelve poor, relatively small countries might not long survive alone among such expansionist wheeler-dealers as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea. Guiding spirit of the conference was Ivory Coast's able President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, 55, who had years of experience in the French National Assembly, has become ex-French Africa's most influential statesman...
...Last Sight. At 6:20 one morning early this month, a Piper P18 duster plane with Félix at the stick rose over Santa Clara and headed into bucking head winds for the Florida Keys. Rafael, shivering in his thin vinyl jacket, was precariously perched half out of the narrow cockpit, with one leg braced against a wing strut. After two hours of buffeting, Félix, who had never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara...