Word: lipski
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
...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...