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...national income consists of remittances from members of the Xhosa tribe who work "abroad"-in the mines, factories and farms of white South Africa -as migrant laborers. Admits a black civil servant in one of Umtata's new government office buildings, "We are like a puppet show, with the whites pulling the strings as we dance to their tune...
...criticisms levelled at the Miller administration amounted to little more than red-baiting. Although he admitted he could not prove his charges, Trbovich alleged that Miller had permitted "radicals, socialists, and Communists" to infiltrate the union, and that they were "running the president like a puppet...
...personalities to dolls, porcelain and bright. Cosindas' trip to Greece in 1960 started her career as a creative photographer, but she has come a long way from the conception of drama that "Greek Lady, 1959" shows. Her recent portraits have left black and white tragedy for what seems a puppet stage. Her precisely-composed arrangements disconcert. A personage like Vionnet may be thought of in terms of pure design, color, fashion and grooming, but it somehow reduces Imogen Cunningham to see her elfed in this very miniature lens. Ezra Pound's hands, large and blurred between his knees in front...
...latest in a continuing series of foreign policy blunders- accepting the propaganda "apology" of the North Koreans in exchange for the lives of two U.S. servicemen [Aug. 30]-demonstrates again the "gutless" approach of the Ford-Kissinger regime in dealing with puppet dictatorships...
Adlai himself would have some input, of course; even now he is no Daley puppet. Stevenson is known to lean toward the Humphrey-Muskie wing of the party (Daley, on the other hand, dislikes Humphrey). Additionally, there is some reason to believe Stevenson might not yearn to be vice-president. But providing he would accept, it is conceivable Daley might try to pull the whole thing...