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Whether the guerrillas pose a serious threat to Papa Doc's dictatorship remains to be seen. But his nerves are starting to show. His internal military radio in Port-au-Prince has been heard exhorting militiamen in the field to capture "just one-just one prisoner." The militia commander replied that he could not even get a clear view of the guerrillas, much less catch one. Duvalier claims that the rebels are Communists from Cuba, has asked the U.S. to run reconnaissance flights over the Windward Passage. The U.S. found no evidence of any Cuban invasion effort...
Grand Acclaim. To mark the event, scores of famed artists and friends packed Shawn's rustic theater. No matter that Papa Shawn and Miss Ruth had been "esthetically separated" - he lives in Florida, she in California - for more than 30 years now. Their Indian-inspired duet, entitled Siddhas (Angels) of the Upper Air, was an act of celebration and remembrance...
Miss Ruth's influence during all those years was chiefly as a performer and innovator. Last week's premiere marked the first time that she and Papa had danced together in ten years, and it was a faultless performance. When it was all over, Ted Shawn's thoughts turned characteristically to the future. "Things go in cycles," he said, "like the seasons of the year. I feel this present renaissance of the dance is just about early summer. Before autumn and decadence set in, it may be another 200 years...
Most of all, Davis shows tact and imagination as an adviser of actors. He spurs the phlegmatic Finch to a thoughtful portrait of the middle-aged man attempting simultaneously to play papa and pitch woo. And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety...
...hour, drill bits broke. Martinet never complained, calmed fellow victims and rescuers alike, asked for playing cards with which the men passed their time playing belote, a sort of French bridge. When Martinet's 18-year-old daughter Janine asked in a midnight conversation from the drill site, "Papa, how are you?", he lectured: "Should not a girl of your age be home at this hour of the day? Go home and keep your mother company. She should rest and not worry. Our morale is like iron...