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...President talked of new hydroelectric projects, highway construction and agriculture, then came to the main point of his talk. Faced with growing public uneasiness over inflation and opposition claims that he is little more than a puppet manipulated by War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott (TIME, May 21), Kubitschek assured his countrymen that he had "enough authority, energy and fighting spirit to guarantee a full five-year term which will not fall into the abyss of government marked by precariousness and instability." Raising his voice, he added, "From the people I deserve confidence, and I ask that they wait...
Brownell's Puppet? Lyndon Johnson, relaxed, affable, appearing to enjoy the brawl, moved tirelessly around the state on handshaking tours, cracking at Shivers as a "Little Lord Fauntleroy with no place to go." Learning that Republican Attorney General Herbert Brownell had gone secretly to Woodville for a conference with Shivers last month, Johnson cried: "Allan Shivers is nothing but a puppet in Brownell's hands." Blasting away even more lustily was angry Sam Rayburn, who described the Shivers campaign as "rat alley politics" and called Shivers himself a "frustrated, unhappy, desperate man who knows he's going...
...this back-country court in a feverish atmosphere of family jealousies. Grandfather Abdullah had three wives, whose offspring schemed to-obtain the succession. His father Talal was an un happy, unstable man who beat Hussein's mother and denounced his own father Abdullah as a British puppet. The old King took to the young princeling. Hussein galloped on his blooded Arabian mare through the hills of his grandfather's summer place near Jericho, and hunted small game with the rifle that Abdullah had given him. One of his grandfather's aides taught him to fence with...
...British and a setback for the whole Western position in the area. Israel, which used to denounce Glubb Pasha, now recognized him as a moderating force among the Arabs, and took his dismissal as a sign that the neighbor country may disintegrate and that Egypt may install a puppet regime among the diehard Palestinian refugees west of the Jordan...
Unfortunately, the Students for Eisenhower has now become little more than a puppet of the Harvard Young Republican Club instead of a rallying point for all Eisenhower supporters, regardless of political affiliation. Richard B. Dobrow...