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...used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...
Never before had a Soviet economic plan-advertised as only the first installment of an even grander "15-year-perspective development plan"-been proclaimed that sounded so much like a political manifesto. It pledges Russia's 121 million workers "the world's shortest working week"-but at some unspecified future time. It promises that there will be butter for every Russian table, while "flights to celestial and cosmic bodies" will also be carried out. It targets an overall rise of 80% in industrial output by 1965, and a 62%-63% boost in national income. Thus the emphasis will...
...Curley found himself elected Governor. The four years that followed were as riotous as any in State House history. He controlled patronage on a grander scale than ever, and had unlimited opportunities to harass his friends from Harvard. To replace the noted Commissioner of Education, Payson Smith, Curley appointed a woolly-minded old crony who had once taught in a country school. The man promptly enraged even Ward 17 by changing his name from Reardon to the more distinguished Reardan...
With increasing power, Nasser grew mercurial, showed signs of quicker arrogance. He wearied of his insurmountable domestic problems and preferred to busy himself with grander international affairs. "I really have no plans; I just react," he liked...
...even grander scale, he has accused Meyner of permitting "a complete breakdown at the state level in the law enforcement machinery," and has hinted darkly that the administration is covering up a "major garbage collection scandal" in Bergen County until the election is over...