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...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...
While his 51 -in. waistline does suggest a dirigible, Comedian Jackie Gleason never travels by plane, and sometimes even feels the squeeze on the train. Crossing the country to Hollywood two months ago to make a movie aptly titled Papa's Delicate Condition, Jackie found his rail accommodations of several drawing rooms much too cramped, and on his arrival pronounced himself "embarrassed" at the lack of space. So for his return to Manhattan, ample Jack went whole hog, rented an entire seven-car train (including three club cars) from several railroads and rolled out of Los Angeles last week...
Pkhaladze-his ghosts fondly called him "Papa"-was so successful that soon he expanded to Leningrad's medical schools. He acquired a chauffeur-driven Volga limousine, dined regularly at Moscow's Aragvi Restaurant, where lavish tips earned him VIP treatment. He even treated himself to a vacation at Carlsbad in Czechoslovakia, where he posed as a movie producer...
...David Dubinsky, 70, has built among the teeming sweatshops of Manhattan's garment district one of the nation's most powerful industrial unions. But, for the past 19 months the indomitable and volcanic president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (fondly but cautiously dubbed "Papa" by his rank and file) has been fighting a surprisingly different kind of battle. This time Papa Dubinsky is out to break a union. His victim: the Federation of Union Representatives (FOUR), which was organized as a "union within a union" by the I.L.G.W.U.'s own organizers, business agents...
During the next eight years. Papa Nicklaus poured more than $35,000 into his prodigy son's gol--for clubs, clothes, transportation, hotels, caddy fees, etc. "It's the most wonderful money I ever spent," says Charles Nicklaus. "I figure it's like living my life all over again. I always wanted to be a champ." By the time he was 14. Jack already was a local hero in Columbus. MOVE OVER SNEAD-MAKE ROOM FOR JACKIE, read a headline in the Columbus Citizen in 1954. Sportswriters compared Jack to Bobby Jone-who had captured the Georgia...