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...year to support the hundreds of workers arrested in the strikes against food-price hikes. Last month, the group was renamed the Committee for the Serf-Defense of Society, or KSS. Among the prominent KSS members who put their names to the manifesto last week were Historians Jan Yosef Lipski and Adam Michnik and Sociologist Jacek Kuron-plus a group of workers who were amnestied partly because of pressure from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Polish Dissent Heats Up | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...even housewives in curlers pretend they are Mario Andretti. But one morning last week drivers revving up for the dash to Detroit found all lanes blocked by a trio of cars traveling abreast at 55 m.p.h., the legal speed limit. Behind the wheels were Stephen W. Long, Elizabeth Ann Lipski and Bruce Nielson, three friends who had taken it upon themselves to enforce the law. Their cars were decorated with signs reading GAS SHORTAGE and STAY ALIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Vigilantes of Interstate 94 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...climbing embankments and zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile or more and numbered some 600 cars. There was nothing illegal about what had happened. En route back to Ann Arbor, however, Lipski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Vigilantes of Interstate 94 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Lova takes her third-from-the-left place in Paris' famed Folies-Bergère chorus line, prances onstage dressed in not much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova is in reality 2nd Lieut. Lydia Danuta de Lipski, one of France's greatest Resistance fighters. Last week the French government prepared to add the Legion of Honor medal to the Croix de guerre with bronze star awarded her by General Charles de Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Married. Josef Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany, to a Mme Rosset, who had just squeaked out of Warsaw by plane before the Germans captured it; in Paris. Day after his wedding, Mr. Lipski went off to enlist as a private in the Polish Legion in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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