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...same time the government was struggling with the food-price problem, it was trying to raise money for a new hospital in Lodz to be named in honor of the nation's mothers. The latest Polish joke: the hospital will be filled with housewives exhausted from waiting in food lines...
Eugeniusz, 36, was a Solidarity member in a textile factory in Lodz, 85 miles southwest of Warsaw. Although he was not a union leader, the factory management tried to fire him last March because he would speak out against the plant's shoddy management. Eugeniusz, who does not want his last name to be used, kept his job thanks to a successful appeal, but the experience chastened him. "Everyone is unhappy with the situation here, but they remain silent because of fear," he says. "How can there be any kind of reform when people cannot speak...
...born in the industrial city of Lodz, Poland, on Jan. 28, 1887. His father, who owned a small textile factory, quickly recognized his son's talent. At four, Rubinstein had calling cards that read ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO; at eight, he was studying in Berlin. In 1906 Rubinstein made his first trip to America. The notices were mixed; some praised his spirit, but others carped about his technical waywardness, a criticism that haunted him for nearly 30 years. Disheartened, Rubinstein returned to Europe, where he lived the uncertain, itinerant life of an aspiring performer, moving from hotel...
...human life." Meanwhile, the government began deploying riot troops and water cannons at such expected gathering points as Warsaw's Castle Square. Tensions rose at week's end, when the state television announced that 108 people had been arrested following riots in the textile center of Lodz. Equally ominous was the news of joint Polish-Soviet army maneuvers near Warsaw...
With the deepening food crisis, the public mood has shifted from resignation to anger. "Waiting in line is a national sickness," complained a Gdansk woman, who takes turns in the queues with her husband and two teen-age children. Snapped an unmarried Lodz textile worker: "We have been making sacrifices for years, but nothing has changed for the better. They need to improve our working conditions and give us some more food before they start talking of sacrifices...