Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counts of violating anti-obscenity laws by deluging Iowa with six smutty paperbacks and 14 nudist magazines. Although 250 obscenity cases are now pending in California, even the state's best bookstores still blatantly display "nudie" magazines, while others peddle prurient paperbacks, ranging from Carnal Code to Passion Puppet...
...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...
Died. René Schick, 56, president of Nicaragua since 1963, a mild-mannered Managua professor and civil servant who was the hand-picked candidate of the country's all-powerful Somoza family, yet proved less of a do-nothing puppet than expected, largely running his own show and permitting the opposition to raise its voice, while working successfully to industrialize through foreign investment his land's cotton-coffee-cattle economy; of a heart attack; in Managua...
...sharing his attributes is no longer possible." The decline began, Harper suggests, with Copernicus and Galileo, who demonstrated that the earth was not the center of the universe and that man is therefore not the center of creation. Darwin described man as a pawn of evolution, Freud as a puppet of the unconscious, Marx and other determinists as a prisoner of an abstraction called history. "Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example," complained Carlyle. "He was the 'creature of the Time,' they say; the Time called him forth, the Time did everything, he nothing...
...possibly the last big try for power by Colombia's aging (66) ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. On the eve of last week's presidential elections, Rojas drafted a puppet candidate, scheduled a whirlwind campaign of the countryside, and gave his man the same big buildup that had helped Rojas' party win 18% of the vote in the congressional elections last March. In the end, it wasn't enough. For the third time, the country's eight-year-old National Front coalition won the presidency. The winner by a better than two-to-one margin...