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...tried to do it with French puppets--and General Ky is no less a puppet than Bao Dai--but it failed because it was a foreign importation...
...Khrushchevite revisionists are actively trying to isolate People's China and surround it with a ring of fire." The voice last week was Peking's, speaking through its puppet state of Albania, and it had a distinctly claustrophobic edge to it. No doubt about it, Red China was beginning to sit up and take notice of the mounting Soviet diplomatic campaign to grab a bigger role in Asia (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week, with Kremlin Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent...
...difficult to imagine the man who wrote Billy-Club Puppet facing a firing squad. While Lorca's fame lies chiefly in his tragic plays and his poetry, Billy-Club Puppet is a gay little fantasy, modeled on the puppet theatre, and as innocent as a flower...
...PUPPET by Bil Baird. 251 pages. Macmillan. $17-50. Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who watched their antics in the 17th century. Punch's ancestor, a hook-nosed Turkish bully named Karaghioz, preceded him by several centuries. The special exaggerated magic of the marionette, which lives only in the minds of its spectators and often requires three human puppeteers to give it movement, is affectionately evoked...
...Curtain visitors-and left flames licking from third-floor windows. Farther east along the shore, a second raiding group blasted away at a police station, then at a group of soldiers, who scrambled for cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion was such that antiaircraft guns were pumping shells into the sky as searchlights crisscrossed futilely for enemy planes...