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Gierek, 67, is a man of strong moods and quick temper. He likes his vodka, an holds it well. He still speaks French fluently, and rarely misses an edition of the Paris daily Le Monde. A natty dresser, Gierek insists that his white who be washed by his wife Stanislawa. "She is the only one who knows how to make them look good yet soft," Gierek answered when relatives do that the wife of Poland's leader should not have to do laundry. And for all of Gierek's devotion to Communism, his aged mother has remained...
Despite U.S. pressure on NATO allies to support the high technology embargo, the Soviets are still managing to get most of what they want. Two weeks ago Moscow television proudly announced that American oil drilling equipment, which Dresser Industries of Dallas had twice been stopped from exporting, was now being obtained in Italy and France. There is also little evidence that the trade bans are hurting the Soviet economy. The outlook is for a good-to-excellent Soviet grain harvest and the Kremlin insists that there will be no food shortages...
While some families poked around in dresser drawers and jewelry cases for gold cufflinks and earrings, others rummaged through attics and closets in search of long forgotten sterling silver tea sets, candlesticks, or perhaps just a stray silver ashtray. Gold and silver fever is spreading to ordinary folks, and many were lining up at coin and jewelry shops to seE their little treasures for quick cash...
...song writer, his hokey girlfriend and perverted neighbors is, in one word, terrible. Dudley Moore--of Good Evening fame--limps along mightily, running into Beverly Hills cops, the back of his telescope and, finally, the beautiful Bo Derrick. The woman is a "14" but, for some reason, her hair dresser thinks she's a Rasterfarian...
...Delaware police dubbed him the Gentleman Bandit after he had held up six Wilmington area stores last winter. Not only did he brandish a chrome-plated pistol, but he was a natty dresser who always wore a fedora and treated his victims with elaborate courtesy. He once even apologetically told a clerk, "I wouldn't do this if I didn't have to." After seven holdup witnesses picked the same man out of a police lineup last February, the authorities indicted an unlikely suspect: the Rev. Bernard T. Pagano, 53, then assistant pastor at St. Mary...