Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Pittsburgh one day last week rolled a cream-colored station wagon loaded with Polish highway officials and powered by high-octane U.S. diplomacy. Shepherded by a U.S. Bureau of Public Roads official, the four visiting Poles peppered Pennsylvania experts with questions on road-building materials and mechanization, marveled at...
The warmth was kindled a year ago when President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles pledged that rebellious Poles and Hungarians could henceforth "draw on our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment." Crushed by Russian tanks, the Hungarians were unable to take advantage of the U.S...
Diplomatic Opportunity. In West Germany, where recovery of the "eastern territories" is supposedly still a hot emotional issue, Tito's statement could not be ignored in the last week of an election campaign. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano blustered darkly of taking action against Yugoslavia (nature undisclosed). The point...
Instead, having survived Stalin and then become the first to denounce him, Mikoyan has to be careful not to let the repudiation of Stalin get out of hand: the desire for revenge could easily devour all those who served him. Mikoyan was in the Kremlin group that flew to Warsaw...
And to be blunt, things are chaotic. Housing is miserable and overcrowded. Wages are so low (average: $65 a month) that many a Pole works overtime at two jobs, puts his wife and children to work, or steals what he can from the state-run enterprises, to stay alive. Gomulka...