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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss. All that remains to remind people of the hated era of collectivization, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes from Morawice last week, is a little signboard in the center of the village square, which .bears faded posters of another government, with pictures of Warsaw's Russian-built "Palace of Culture." The new attitude towards the party was summed up by an ancient pitchfork-brandishing farmer: "I'm my own boss now and when some party man comes out to tell me to go out to rake hay for the nation, I have a big needle for his back...
...newfound riches is going into a huge system of social-and economic welfare enterprises. Schools, hospitals, roads and public works have sprung up everywhere. Rows of spanking new houses in cheerful pink, yellow and chartreuse have arisen to take the place of drab thatched huts. Massive U.S.-built earth movers plow into virgin forest, making way for new highways. A new $2,000,000 mosque, the first in Islam to boast an elevator, stands in the heart of Brunei town, the nation's capital (and only) city...
...Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard Norwegian-born Balchen's World War II exploits recounted (he built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions there, later parachuted supplies to the underground on 67 low-level flights to Norway, made no round trips in unarmed planes ferrying internees from Sweden to Britain). President Eisenhower sent his respects, and doughty Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe...
Schloss Herrenchiemsee (through September) got into the festival business years before the war with a series of candlelight concerts at the imposing castle, which is often passed off as a medieval relic, although it was actually built by mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria only 70 years ago. The specialty at Schloss Herrenchiemsee (near Munich) is low-calorie chamber music, e.g., Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Haydn, Boccherini, Dittersdorf, played by a string quartet beneath the castle's crystal mirrors and chandeliers...
Ziolkowski quickly showed that he had the energy to go with his size and ambition. Ax on shoulder, he went into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse...