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...days our life-style has changed; we scarcely have time for poems. It is sad that we need a kind of hype to get interested in the wonders of poetry. This Nobel Prize serves to remind us that it is time to strengthen our weak cultural awareness. MACIEJ FRANKIEWICZ Konin, Poland...
Also recalled from banishment was Tadeusz Grabski, 51, former Central Committee member and first secretary of the local party in Konin. Grabski had complained bitterly in 1978 of the "chaos and confusion in our economy." That candor, widely circulated in the underground press, provoked his ouster from the Central Committee last year. The reinstatement of Grabski and Olszowski was an implicit condemnation of Gierek's disastrous economic record, marked by a $20 billion foreign debt and severely declining growth in 1979. To compound his humiliation, the Party Leader was forced in a nationally televised speech to praise "those comrades...
Family Man. A Goldwater-Barry's grandfather-was staking his claim in Arizona history before the wild old territory even had a capital. Born in Konin, Russia, in the early 1820s, Michel Goldwasser emigrated at the age of 27 to England, where he married and Anglicized the family name. Lured by tales of the California gold rush, he shipped out for San Francisco in 1852 with his younger brother Joseph, sold whisky and hard goods to the mining camps of Sonora...
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