Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beset by absenteeism, inadequate production and hard drinking among Poland's low-paid workers, the Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka first tried friendly persuasion. When that failed, the government last month fired 2,500 miners who had played hooky once too often. As an added penalty, it forbade the men to work again in the mines, where the pay, while not enough to live on, is nevertheless almost double the average of employees in other state industries. The regime proudly claimed last week that as a result of its action, production in the mines immediately went up and absenteeism...
...Haiti's Dr. Louis Mars reported that in his country schizophrenia accounts for one-third of all psychoses (again a low proportion compared to the West), with the paranoid form most common. Haiti's peasants rarely develop schizophrenia, but those who do, show in their delusions "a cultural African content with the gods and devils of the old black continent." The disease is most often seen among the economically and culturally unstable fringes of the middle class in the towns, and these people in their mental disturbances "evoke the Christian god, electricity, radio and other elements of Western...
...outdone by Russian high jumpers and their Pogo-stick shoes (TIME, Sept. 9), California's Ernie Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles...
...pronunciation: Tooley). Around it is nothing but a featureless white plain, and Fist Clench itself looks like almost nothing. Only low chimney tops show above the snow...
...bases on the ice are not likely, and in any case, the Army is not much concerned with air bases. More likely it is interested in icecap missile bases, which could be ideal places to station giant rockets in ready-to-go position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast, and over the base itself would spread a smooth, white plain, showing no faintest sign of human activity...