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Larry Mueller, a research engineer at the Burroughs business machines company in Detroit, has a puppet at home named Mickey. His friend John Mayer, general manager of a small Detroit electronics firm, has a three-year-old son named David. Their homes are some miles apart, but on certain completely unpredictable emergency evenings, only Mickey can make David agree to go to bed. On those evenings, John Mayer takes his son down to the basement, turns on his ham TV equipment and tunes in Mickey. Before long the puppet has persuaded the kid to hit the sack...
...male model, done with all the skill of a master draftsman. Gradually, Broderson came to "dislike perfect bodies.'' His figures became a play of shadow and form-squat, ghostly figures that can be taken as universal symbols suggesting anything from the innocence of a child's puppet to the thunder of an ancient god. For a while, they held the stage with nothing in the background, but over the years, Broderson's compositions have grown increasingly complex. They are the result of innumerable sketches, worked and reworked until the final structure, often an almost archaic architecture...
...Good-bye, 'Rights of Man,'" and the second lieutenant angrily but too obviously misinterprets the ambiguity. With ever more pain-staking care, the discontent of the "Avenger's" crew is endlessly thrust before the audience. Master-at-arms Claggart is not yet allowed to be more than a puppet of the director...
...capturing a Spanish general and 20,000 soldiers-most of whom were butchered on the spot. In the next four years, Krim repeatedly whipped the Spaniards and nearly drove them into the sea. When Krim declared the independence of the Riff and named himself sultan, Spain set up a puppet ruler of its own, the redoubtable Moroccan bandit Raisuli.* Krim promptly scattered another Spanish army, seized Raisuli and shut him up in a cave with his harem until he died...
...China produced a second surprise last week. At Peking airport. Premier Chou En-lai welcomed Outer Mongolia's Premier Yurnzhagiin Tsedenbal, 46, who is normally regarded as a Russian puppet. Whisked off in a black. Soviet-made limousine among crowds dutifully waving Chinese and Mongolian flags, Tsedenbal was put through the usual routine of toasts, banquets and fulsome speeches. Then, on the same day that Red China announced plans to define its borders with Pakistan, Tsedenbal and Chou En-lai signed a treaty fixing the 2,500-mile frontier between their two countries...