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Argentina, a land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, whose 20 million people are more than 90% European-descended, has been ruled by a puppet President and a military dictatorship for 3½ months. The treasury is about bankrupt, the peso has fallen from 83 to a dollar to as low as 137, the cost of living has risen 42.7% since April, and one of the most powerful of the Peronista unions last week threatened to take over the factories themselves unless they were paid long-overdue wages. Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray is flying...
Think about it-a dirty puppet show. An evil puppet chains a lissome nude to a pillar and tickles her to death with a long pink feather. A vast bat helps tear the clothes off an undulating stripper, then flies away with her. A bawdy Balinese girl is seduced in a swimming pool. Bare-breasted beauties hang in bird cages over the audience, or parade around the stage, heaving, wiggling, sighing, shaking, and saucing the house...
Poupees de Paris was started by a couple of vaudeville puppeteers named Sid and Marty Krofft, whose family experience in the craft goes back five generations in Greece. They mounted their first nude puppet show for $40,000 in an out of the way nitery in the San Fernando Valley last year. The place had only 90 seats, but in the Poupees' six-month run they drew more than 50,000 people and grossed $112,000. Another production is now in its ninth week in Hollywood, and the Kroffts plan to open still another in Manhattan next fall...
...Juan is no princely puppet. In Estoril, he works hard each morning at his rambling Villa Giralda. digesting reports on developments in Spain, receiving visitors, answering mail, plowing through the newspapers flown in from London...
From the desk of Puppet President José María Guido came a pair of presidential decrees dissolving all political parties and formally recessing Congress for a year...