Word: boleslaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputy Premiers concerned with economic affairs were given other jobs. Appointed to the planning commission were three outside men - including a new chairman, Economist Jozef Kulesza - whose views appear to be more flexible than those of their predecessors. In addition, Politburo Member Boleslaw Jaszczuk was given the task of overseeing all economic development in Poland. Whether the new men can engineer the sweeping changes that Poland really needs remains to be seen. But the switches seem to indicate that the regime has finally admitted the bankruptcy of the status...
...Radio Warsaw accused him of "fanning the conflict that he himself created for the sake of the most re actionary objectives." Zycie Warszawy, the government's prominent morning paper, came out for the cardinal's ouster from the church's leadership and his replacement by Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek of Wroclaw, the cardinal's second in command and a man considered more "reasonable" and pliant. But even the archbishop must raise a few Red doubts. "On questions of the existence of the church," Archbishop Kominek vowed recently, "we [the hierarchy] are always together...
...Bishop of Prague, who was massacred in 997 while on missionary expedition among the pagan Prussians. His body was ransomed by the Polish duke, Boleslaw the Brave, and buried in Gniezno. Adalbert was canonized about...
...letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club, a group of several hundred artists, teachers and historians whose debates on current affairs constitute the only organized forum of free opinion permitted...