Word: voodoos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any other voodoo mystic, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier has his good-luck day: the 22nd. He was elected "President" on Sept. 22, 1957, inaugurated Oct. 22, then installed as "President for Life" on June 22, 1964. Some Haitians even credit his occult powers with the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, a longtime foe. But last Jan. 22, Duvalier's luck suddenly seemed to turn when one of his two DC-3s crashed on Haiti's southern peninsula, crippling his rickety little air force. Haitians hopefully spread the word that Duvalier might...
...sorry he's dead." Epps says, "but the only speech I sympathized with was the last one because it is only through developing this self-critical approach that the Negro will break out of the Conservative pattern." "Although I can't go along with his earlier voodoo Nationalism," Epps adds, "Malcolm X freed my mind of self indulgent bourgeois concerns. Before my mind was critical, but after having listened to Malcolm X, I became self-critical...
Streaking out of low cloud cover just seaward of Haiphong, the U.S. Air Force Voodoo flew smack into a sky full of flak. As his reconnaissance fighter belched flame from its starboard engine, Captain Norman Huggins, 36, of Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute...
Where can a bargain hunter buy three live elk for $500 each, a small-scale Mississippi paddle-wheeler for $7,500, or a connoisseur's collection of African voodoo drums and five-foot spears? Answer: at the New York World's Fair, where the greatest sale of surplus goods since the big postwar auctions of military gear is about to take place. As the Oct. 17 closing date approaches, the selloff by the Fair's 300 exhibitors is beginning in earnest...
...pavilion is offering to the highest bidder twelve hand-carved acacia-wood panels that depict Philippine history and took 30 workmen more than a year to make. The Philippines also want to dispose of a 70-ft.-high Oriental-style restaurant, and Guinea wants to get rid of its voodoo tom-toms, native spears and a 40-ton air conditioner (all for the best offers...