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Poland's new Premier is no stranger to conflict. He fought the Nazis in World War II, helped crush anti-Communist guerrillas in 1945-47, and was adept enough at political infighting to hang on as Defense Minister under three successive party leaders. To Poles contemplating his possible future moves, however, Wojciech Jaruzelski's most striking quality is the sense of patriotic conciliation that led him, in 1976 and 1980, to refuse to turn his armed forces against strikers...
...Goodspeed's latest New York entry, 1927's The Five O'Clock Girl, is as perishable as a butterfly's wings and possesses the same gossamer enchantment. In this never-ever land, a laundry-girl slavey, Patricia Brown (Lisby Larson), develops a crush on a bachelor socialite, Gerald Brooks (Roger Rathburn), and telephones his penthouse every afternoon...
...final tally doesn't sound close, and the game wasn't as close as it sounds. The Crimson led from the opening tip, controlling the boards at both ends and shooting a hot 61 per cent from the field to crush completely the Division II Warriors...
...each other. George L. Saunders, the chief A T& T trial lawyer, accused the Government of trying to destroy "the greatest enterprise on earth." Declared Gerald A. Connell, the Justice Department's prosecutor: "The trouble is that from time to time this big elephant might reach out and crush someone...
...biggest losers last week may have been those who acted quickly on Granville's advice. The crush of opening sell orders was so heavy that many of them could not be carried out until stocks had substantially declined. Lucky investors sold after the Granville shock had subsided and the market had bounced back slightly. -By Edward E. Scharff. Reported by John Tompkins/New York