Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election results shed considerably less credit on the white voters of Alabama, who overwhelmingly endorsed Lurleen Wallace as her segregationist husband's puppet candidate in a cynical attempt to evade the state's constitutional provision that prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself (see following story). Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King denounced Lurleen's victory as "a protest vote against the tide of inevitable progress...
Dispensable Cog. Regardless of the sinuous internal motives behind the uprising, many U.S. editorialists and cartoonists faulted President Johnson for Ky's plight, arguing that the Administration had been overly enthusiastic in its support of the Premier, making him appear an American puppet in the eyes of his countrymen. In fact, Johnson had been scrupulously careful in his meeting with Ky, proceeding on the logical assumption that Ky was no more expendable than any of the other nine members of the Saigon junta. Indeed, Ky has never considered himself an indispensable cog in the Saigon government. A few months...
...Vienna, Conductor Julius Rudel spent endless hours building miniature theaters and staging puppet operas-Salome in a shoe box, Parsifal in a packing crate. The training proved to be apt preparation for his job as director of the New York City Opera. For the past eight years, operating on a budget that would pass for carfare at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been nurturing his company in a glorified Manhattan shoe box called City Center. Last week, like slum kids transported to the country, Rudel and his 200-member troupe moved into the spacious luxury of the New York State...
...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...