Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...
...France's Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain; after a long illness; in Paris. Married to Pétain at the height of his World War I glory as the defender of Verdun, Mme. Pétain dutifully shared his World War II ignominy as chief of the puppet Vichy regime, after his postwar sentence for treason followed him to the tiny Ile d'Yeu, where she was his only visitor during six years of solitary confinement, and upon his death in 1951 persuaded the French government to allow him to be buried wearing the Médaille...
...eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek to replace democracy by dictatorship-those who would transform our fellowship of free states into the bondage of satellites." The Cubans, led by Castro's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós, laughed out loud. The other 19 delegations gave Rusk a standing ovation. But though the delegates stood together to applaud in the resort's converted gambling hall where Rusk spoke, they split into widely divergent groups in the negotiations that followed...
...nations of the Western Hemisphere gather this week to decide whether to censure Castro, crowd him with sanctions, or merely live in discomfort with him. Castro himself is taking the meeting seriously. Heading Cuba's 40-man delegation to the hemispheric foreign ministers' meeting is his puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticós, a traveler to Moscow who ran for local office on the Communist ticket as far back as 1948. At his elbow as the delegation's "adviser" is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, editor of Cuba's Communist daily...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...