Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, short of a major reversal, the Soviet Union would derisively reject any such proposals. But the reason is not that they would fail to contribute to stability. Rather it is that the Soviet Union is reluctant" (sic) "to give up its East German puppet, its springboard for wrecking NATO and for the eventual domination of all of Germany. The melancholy fact may be that in their present state of mind the Soviet leaders are interested only in those agreements in Europe which contribute to instability...
...starts to move like a sports car slamming into gear. Crouched over the ball, his left arm thrust out as a shield, Robertson maneuvers through the melee under the hoop until, in one blurred motion, he rises from the floor to hang alone in mid-air like a puppet on a string. At last he shoots-a precise, gentle release of the ball that is cocked behind his right ear, a final flick of his fingers. The mark of Robertson's shot is the hiss of the net as the ball falls cleanly through...
...first novel (which won the $10,000 Harper Prize for 1961) that are not total losses. In Satry's brother Alonso. Author Lobsenz fashions a Don Quixote-cum-Candide whose pratfalls over the purity of his own logic attain a kind of tragic hilarity. Alonso is the puppet of his fate and a prototype of all the fanatically idealistic students who march and die in the streets...
...recent Sunday in Lima, a mob of swarthy, high-cheekboned workers crowded into the courtyard of an old two-story building called "The House of the People." In a carnival mood, the workers guffawed at puppet shows, consumed bowls of guinea-pig soup and bottles of rotgut pisco brandy sold at kiosks emblazoned with the initials of the political party hosting the blowout-APRA. By such homespun come-ons, Peru's American Revolutionary Popular Alliance was busily laying the groundwork last week for the 1962 presidential election-and what the movement thinks is its best opportunity to rule...
Noisy Abroad. What Castro does get is assistance in his propaganda war against "Yankee imperialism." In Washington last year, President López Mateos called the Cuban revolution nationalist nonCommunist. Eight months later, when Cuba's touring puppet President turned up in Mexico after having been rebuffed en route by Argentina's President Frondizi and Venezuela's Betancourt, López Mateos went down to the airport, gave him a warm abrazo and a warm word: "We are linked to Cuba by similar aspirations for justice." At the Organization of American States' San José meeting...