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...Norbert Golunski, who runs an 85-acre farm and is $10,000 in debt, might be expected to share that skepticism. But as the former chairman of the regional unit of Rural Solidarity, he is convinced that political means can serve practical ends. "We have to be involved in politics," he explains. "We want economic improvements-that's politics. We want better working conditions-that's politics." What he does not talk about is the widely held suspicion that in northern Poland, Rural Solidarity, having been infiltrated by government agents, delayed farmers' efforts to organize union activities...
...DIED. Norbert Pearlroth, 89, researcher who, believe it or not, from 1923 to 1975 was the sole discoverer and documentor of all the obscure and fascinating trivia that made up the syndicated comic strip Ripley's Believe It or Not; of heart and kidney diseases; in New York City. Hired by Strip Creator and Illustrator Robert Ripley for his linguistic abilities and memory for detail, Pearlroth thereafter spent seven days a week every week in the New York Public Library, unearthing at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters...
...gamble," said Norbert J. Kornyei, director of financial operations at Harvard. "They're betting on the ability to earn more money on the amount that a parent pays up front than the amount of the tuition increase," he added...
...Proposition 13, San Jose had to renege on a promise made in January to offer a 6% pay increase to teachers. The teachers, in turn, filed a formal grievance with the school board. But they are still in the classrooms. "At least they didn't strike," says Norbert Strecker, president of the school board. "If this had happened a year ago, they would have." Adds Deputy Superintendent Aaron Seandel: "They know we're broke. The kind of money we need you don't get from bake sales...
...world no longer glories in its romantic, violent heroes Nor is his white. Penelope (Nora Seton) a mindless devotedly passionate house wife any longer During her husband's long absence she has gone to college, presently she's being courted by two debonair suitors. Herb Shuttle (Doug Curtis) and Norbert Woodly (Andrew Atkinson...