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...Papa César founded the Paris hotel whose name became a synonym for class. Mama Mimi, after her husband's death, boarded Nazis during the Occupation, keeping the Allies posted on their travels. Last week Charles Ritz, 72, now Chairman of Paris' Ritz, flew to Manhattan to check into the strategies of Europe's latter-day invaders. He sampled a $90-a-day suite at the New York Hilton, ran his finger over the moldings, ordered snacks in from room service (usually in the wee hours), and emerged from his experiment reassured. "The Hilton is good...
...director of expeditions sponsored by Harvard, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Egyptian government. Photographs show him as a portly figure with wire-rimmed glasses and a bristling mustache; he looks strikingly like Theodore Roosevelt. To his co-workers, it is said, he was known as "Papa George...
...attempts of the opposition. Think well, renegades. Here is the fate awaiting you and your kind." Below was a photograph of three severed heads torn from the bodies of captured anti-Duvalier guerrillas and displayed at Haiti's National Palace. Just in case anyone missed the message, "Papa Doc" administered yet another object lesson to his opposition. In a chilling ceremony at Port-au-Prince's "Ex-terieur" cemetery, he staged Haiti's first-public execution in 30 years...
...short, stocky mulatto, and Marcel Numa, 21, a tall handsome Negro, both members of a 13-man guerrilla force that landed on Haiti's southern coast four months ago. Operating independently of other scattered bands in Haiti, they ambushed troop columns, encouraged peasants to defy their Duvalier overseers. Papa Doc had no trouble finding out who they were; in tiny Negro Haiti, the word gets around fast by telediol grapevine...
Still at large in Haiti's hills is another band of guerrillas, which landed last June and linked up with other fighters already there. Papa Doc had won a battle, but the war went...