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...California's Claremont Graduate School, claims that all the conditions he describes are the products of the modern world economy. It is also a world in which classical economic theory and traditional economic policy are fast becoming irrelevant. The U.S. and other countries, he says, will only continue to prosper if they recognize that fact...
...which had tried to keep a low profile, began cracking down in the capital. Lieut. General Henri Namphy, the council president and commander of the armed forces who succeeded Duvalier, announced that two more council members, Colonel Max Valles and Alix Cineas, and the government's military adviser, Colonel Prosper Avris, had stepped down. All three men were closely associated with the Duvalier dictatorship, and their appointment had stirred considerable bitterness...
...elections. The other military members of the junta: Colonels Max Valles and William Regala, who held key positions in the Duvalier regime. The civilians: Minister of Public Works Alix Cineas and Gerard Gourgue, a founding member of the anti- Duvalier Haitian Human Rights League. The council named Colonel Prosper Avril, a former presidential aide-de-camp, as its counselor. Hoping to return the country to order, the new rulers imposed a 2 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and appealed for calm...
...Friends suggests just how difficult this art can be. The novel takes the form of a recollection, a family saga about a rich matriarch and her four temperamental children. The Dorns have left Europe (perhaps Germany in the early '30s) to establish a manufacturing business in London. They prosper, even though the elder Dorn dies prematurely and leaves Wife Sofka to turn Alfred, Frederick, Mimi and Betty into proper gentlemen and ladies. But there is only so much a mother can do. Alfred is a somber bibliophile destined to run the business and refute the opening line of Jane Austen...
...changes come as Playboy attempts to revive a beleaguered business. Today there are only a dozen Playboy clubs, down from 22 in the mid-1960s. The clubs prosper mainly in smaller towns, including Buffalo and Des Moines, where martinis and ogling are still in style...