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After Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka's decision to break off diplomatic ties with Israel last June at Moscow's behest, there was a modicum of wry truth in a gibe that quickly made the rounds in Warsaw: Tel Aviv was going to retaliate by withdrawing the Polish government. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, was not amused. In a scarcely veiled effort to draw on the old well spring of Polish antiSemitism, he charged: "The Israeli aggression on Arab countries has met with applause from Zionist circles of Jews who are Polish citizens and who even gave drinking parties...
...Modicum of Affluence. Even before they were granted the right to strike, the workers' lot had been gradually improving. Under pressure from the boss of its own sindicatos, a labor-minded Falangist named José Solís Ruiz, the regime has raised the minimum wage twice in the past ten years, from 60? a day to $1.40. And that is only a starting point. Most Spanish workers also take home incentive pay, family allowance and a variety of other fringe benefits that boost their average income to between $4 and $7 a day. Their paychecks stretch a long...
Just at a time when he is beginning to enjoy a modicum of affluence, however, the Spanish worker is being pressed by inflation, which is running at a rate of about 5% a year, and by a slowdown of the general boom that Spain has enjoyed for the past seven years. Production lines no longer operate day and night, overtime has been reduced, and many factories have been forced to lay off some of their working force. Result: a wave of strikes aimed at maintaining the standard of living to which the workers have only recently become accustomed. Once...
...University's literary efforts have had a mixed year this year. House magazines have been conspicuously dead. The Advocate has produced two issues and is facing Commencement with a third at press. Current's large winter issue offered a perfectly acceptable modicum of creativity. Perhaps the multiplying drama and political reviews have shown more steadily convincing signs of life, despite the fact that Charles River Literary Society shelters a bevy of unreconstructed Randians and no poets...
...otherwise offensive book is not obscene if it has "a modicum of social value." But this anti-censorship rule may be vitiated by evidence of a publisher's pandering...