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Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...
...brawny, barrel-shaped man who is up at dawn each morning for a full day of puttering and painting at his thick-beamed home in Sag Harbor, L.I. He may mend a broken piece of furniture or glue together some shattered crockery, but his mind is never far from the converted stable he uses as a studio. There, either painting from a model or from memory, he turns out nudes, landscapes, portraits and still lifes that are flecked with fragments of earthy humor and yet are generally bathed in sadness. A Brook painting does not scream for attention: the colors...
...conventional oxygen tent. It was too soon to be sure of any improvement, but at least he was no worse. Twelve hours later, the doctors gave him a second high-pressure treatment. After that, as his muscles relaxed and his arched back straightened, Douma was clearly on the mend. Just five days after entering the hospital, and little more than three days after his first tank treatment, Douma spoke for the first time. His lockjaw had eased enough for him to swallow water and milk, and he seemed well on the way to recovery...
...Chairman George Love, 61. Mused Love wryly: "I wonder what he would have done if my name was Smith." If Love's name were Smith, stockholders would probably be just as pleased by the solid, dollars-and-cents evidence suggesting that long-ailing Chrysler is finally on the mend. Where it lost a staggering $21.9 million in the first quarter of 1961, Chrysler last week reported a $1.3 million profit for the first three months of '62. Though the company's first quarter sales of $498 million were up 15% from a year ago, its shiny...
...cows, politicians sooner or later must take a position on milk. Even Sir Winston Churchill, who personally prefers strong stuff, gave a limited endorsement to milk: "There is no finer investment for any community to make than putting milk into babies." France's Premier (1954-55) Pierre Mendès-France urged his countrymen to give up wine in favor of milk; most Frenchmen considered Lactophile Mendès-France some sort of nut, and he did not last long as Premier. Even more recently, the British National Milk Publicity Council, backed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, achieved...