Word: flappings
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...Gretl, 22, run the show with three assistants, design the puppets, costumes and sets for the 27-ft. stage. The dolls (adult size: 3-½ ft.) are more supple and lifelike than the popular U.S. or Howdy Doody brand; Cupid shoots arrows, musicians fiddle, puppet birds fly, angels flap their wings, flowers open, horses prance. Aicher & Co. synchronize action and gestures perfectly with tape-recorded music and dialogue...
...Egyptian government ordered the expulsion of the Associated Press Bureau Chief Fred Zusy for pro-British bias, "bad faith" and "harming the interests of Egypt" in his reporting. Milwaukee-born Zusy, 37, denied the charges. The news sent Egypt's ambassador in Washington, Kamil Abdul Rahim, into a flap. When he warned Cairo of the bad effect Zusy's expulsion would have on U.S. public opinion, Cairo reversed its decision...
...fighting front, if not a ceasefire, at least a "seldom-fire" was on even after the Truman flap. The Korean war, limited in the early stages on the U.N. side by Washington's long-term reluctance to "provoke" the Reds, now had a new and puzzling limitation which would or would not make sense, depending on what happened in the truce negotiations...
...Cavalry Regiment was hacking its way up another of the unnamed, unnumbered hills of Korea. Back at the ist Cavalry Division's headquarters, Captain Richard K. Cole, 28, of Orlando, Fla., was waiting. A corpsman stuck his head through the tent flap and called out: "Patients for you, doc." Psychiatrist Cole picked up his only instruments, a notebook and pencil, and sat down on a packing case. The corpsman led the first patient in, handing his medical record to Cole...
...which had gone into a flap when the first Russian bomb was exploded two years ago, accepted the news of Bomb No. 2 for what it was worth. The atomic pundits speculated that the blast had gone off some time within the last month, were surprised that it hadn't come sooner. By now, they estimated, Russia may have stockpiled between 20 and 100 bombs. Stalin's reference to "different calibers" was taken as a hint that Russia, too, was on the trail of tactical atomic weapons...