Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frederick May Eliot, 68, president (since 1937) of the American Unitarian Association, leader of some 100,000 Unitarians in the U.S. and Canada, first cousin ("We're at opposite poles on some issues") of Poet-Playwright-Critic T. S. Eliot; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Luxuriating in one of the little freedoms that distinguish Gomulka's Poland from other Communist countries, some 15.5 million Poles last week pondered voting lists with real choices, walked into polling stations that afforded real privacy, marked ballots with decision. The elections were for local councils across the nation...
The Purge That Failed. In the last six months uneasy Poles have watched Gomulka, their hero of the October 1956 rising, edge back from his "separate road to Socialism" toward closer ties with Moscow. Gomulka has cracked down so hard on the press that he himself was recently heard to...
The weekly is also a harsh critic of the West, but to Poles, in their dogged, rear-guard struggle for democracy, Szpilki's sharpest needles are reserved for Communist duplicity and doublethink. In a cartoon that wryly helped to explain its own survival, Szpilki showed a technician standing with...
¶The oceans make a great machine that distributes warmth and cold to many parts of the earth. By new, ingenious methods, IGY scientists are studying ocean currents, including those far below the surface. One of them flows under the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction. Even deeper, slower currents...