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...Troika. As polling day approached, the campaign took on the color of a hard-fought and genuine democratic election. Unity Front headquarters sent teams of three candidates (Communist, Peasant, Democrat), called "Troikas," galloping through the suburbs, while hundreds of larger teams descended on the provinces. In Lodz, Aeroclub planes dropped Unity Front leaflets, and Boy Scouts canvassed from door to door. In Warsaw there were two masked balls, with mazurkas and rock 'n' roll, under huge banners: "Remember October achievements when you vote...
...grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod in the fourth lap, the pack got handlebars tangled, and 25 riders dived into a mass pratfall. Shortly afterwards an East German cyclist soared off the road into a river. The Communists proudly emphasized that on-the-spot first aid was better than at any other international bike...
Student of High Life. Rubinstein was born in Lodz, Poland, the youngest of seven children of a small manufacturer. By the time he was three, he was a "terrible little fiend" about music, screaming at his sisters when they struck a sour chord and banging the piano lid on their fingers to make them stop. Impressed with his son's possibilities, Papa Rubinstein bought him a child-sized violin. Artur promptly smashed it. Papa bought another, and Artur smashed that too. Papa gave up, let him concentrate on the then less fashionable piano...
Next day at a press conference, the young refugee from neutrality told his story. Born in Poland, he had learned English at the University of Lodz, had never before been out of Poland. When had he first hoped to escape? "The day they came to the import-export government agency in Lodz where I worked and offered me the inspection team...
Meanwhile, a rash of "sabotage" trials had broken out in Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...