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...dangerous erosion of power within their own ranks. Last week some 500 delegates from local Communist Party cells throughout Poland converged on a university lecture hall in the northern city of Torun, birthplace of the astronomer Copernicus, for an extraordinary conference on party reform. Speaker after speaker at the eight-hour meeting criticized Warsaw's Communist leadership for tailing to carry out its promised "renewal." Calling for greater democratization within the party, one delegate declared. "We are fighting for an idea. The top people in the party fight only for their jobs...
...Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings participated in the longest game in organized baseball history Saturday night, an eight-hour, 32-inning affair that isn't over--it will be continued when the teams next meet in Pawtucket on June 23. Racking up 212 at bats the two teams struck out a total of 56 times, also an all-time record. Chico Walker, whose one-for-13 day could have been spread over a week-long slump, scored the two-out, ninth inning run that put the game into extra innings. When informed the game would be continued...
...Arco Chairman Robert O. Anderson had been eager to sell it, partly because he was finding it burdensome to oversee the paper's operations from his Los Angeles headquarters more than 5,000 miles distant. Said an Arco spokesman: "Even routine phone calls were difficult because of the eight-hour time difference...
...dirty money, macho patriarchs and mysterious paternities, good people worrying about, doing right and bad people having fun doing wrong were not enough, ABC has reserved three nights (Sunday, Monday and Wednesday) next week for an adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, East of Eden. While this eight-hour TV movie has clear cultural pretensions, it is really 99-and-44/100% pure soap...
...juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket has been virtually stripped bare during the holiday season...