Word: puppetized
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...Bullet for the President. Salazar himself has never visited Mozambique -a fact that most white Mozambicanos resent. But last week his puppet President, Rear Admiral Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomas, concluded a two-week swing through the country in an effort to prove that Lisbon really cares. From the Indian Ocean port of Lourenço Marques (where he reviewed 5,000 troops and 200 Alsatian, Doberman, boxer and Labrador guard dogs) to the villages of the Limpopo River Valley, the sprightly, 69-year-old President met with rousing receptions and blizzards of confetti. But for all the outward signs...
...getting to be a puppet that pulls its own strings." So runs the latest joke in Saigon. South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Khanh, not exactly an American puppet, certainly is the Vietnamese leader in whom the U.S. has shown its greatest confidence, and in whom it has placed its highest hopes. Last week, Khanh moved well ahead of official U.S. policy by saying, in effect, that the war against the Reds cannot be won so long as it is restricted to the south, that the only solution is to move against North Viet...
GENERAL ELECTRIC. Part of the outside wall revolves, taking six auditoriums full of people around Walt Disney's puppet drama of domestic electricity. In the building's core, there is a show about the universe on the dome and a display of atom fusion in the basement...
CHRYSLER'S Autofare is one big witty spoof on automania. A 34-ft.-high "car of the future" has giant bucket seats made of real buckets, an airmail box on the dashboard and, under the hood, a hot-water bottle. More fun is poked at machines in a puppet-movie, in the Auto-Animal Zoo and in the Engine Fun House...
...when he got back to New York, Nixon flashed his stiletto, said of Scranton: "If a man receives a phone call and changes his mind, he isn't a very strong man. He's got to make his own decisions and not appear to be a puppet maneuvered by someone else...