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...route to the top in American business. Last week Christie Hefner, 29, got to the top by being the boss's daughter. Hugh Hefner, 56, founder and chairman of the board of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced that he was promoting his daughter to president. Said the proud papa: "Christie's promotion is a natural transition. She has certainly been well prepared for this move...
...after a 14-year reign of server by Duvalier's father (Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier), the dictatorship passed without elections to a 19-year-old "Baby Doc." U.S. military ships in Fort-as-Prince Bay helped ensure a smooth transition. Today, U.S. ships still patrol Haitian waters, and Reagan plans to increase aid to Duvalier from $30 million to $50 million this year. The aid package includes helicopters and other weapons which end up in the hands of the tontons-macoutes...
...have been set by Corey Schou, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando: he rigged up a home computer so his five-month-old daughter could operate it by pressing buttons in her crib and changing the designs on a nearby screen. Says the proud papa: "Basically, it's an electronic kaleidoscope, another diversion, another learning device...
...good George"--whom he charges the press with overlooking entirely--has given many thousands of dollars to charities, and has often given generously when his ballplayers faced personal crises. That trait, Schaap suggests, steinbrenner the need to please the Steinbrenner has evinced since his adolescent inability to satisfy Papa Steinbrenner...
...writer must write what he has to say, not speak it," said Ernest Hemingway. But times change and so do writers. If The Old Man and the Sea were published today, Papa would probably play the old man-and perhaps the fish too. And if he did not, no doubt Norman Mailer would volunteer for the role, and perhaps such other aspiring actor-writers as George Plimpton, James Leo Herlihy or Jerzy Kosinski would audition. Nowadays it is almost as fashionable for writers to act as it is for actors to write. In recent months, filmgoers have seen Mailer...