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Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Coming to a Boil | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

JENNERSTOWN, PA., Mountain Playhouse. Never Too Late is a one-gag show that takes off when a middle-aged wife tells her very middle-aged husband that they are to have another child. Papa-to-be protests: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Aug. 25, 1967 | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...Blared his emergency siren in the presidential palace one day last month, then decreed a 10 p.m. curfew, a rare measure even for Papa Doc; anyone caught on the streets after the witching hour took his life in his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Coming to a Boil | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...pudgy medicine man has steadily tightened his reign of terror. And ever since last April, when two bombs rocked downtown Port-au-Prince during a na tional party celebrating his 60th birthday and his tenth year in power, Papa Doc has been exercising his authority with a vengeance. In four brutal months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Coming to a Boil | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...were bright with new candles, Christmas lights and eerie black-magic charms; sacrificial goats and doves were led to the slaughter. Like a witch's caldron, Haiti was once again coming to a boil, and no one wanted to be on the wrong side of the gods-or Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Coming to a Boil | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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