Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Population Shifts. It is still provisional, but the Poles are laboring hard to make their possession permanent. Some 5,800,000 Germans were herded out after the war, leaving only 6,000 there today. About 7,500,000 Poles live there now, most of them postwar arrivals from other parts...
Chronic Fear. The Poles, without Marshall Plan aid,* had little investment capital to put into the new area; they also had to pay cruel sums to the Russians. But above all, they had a chronic fear that the territories might become German again in some cold war East-West settlement...
A living symbol of the insecurity that has haunted Poles for centuries is to be seen at Legnica, where thousands of Soviet troops are garrisoned. Yet, though unwillingly bound to Moscow, Poles find reason to think that even the West will acknowledge their claims. They noted happily that President Eisenhower...
The plot is still basic Austen. The aristocratic Mr. Darcy (Farley Granger) falls in love with Elizabeth (Polly Bergen), one of the five Bennet sisters. She dislikes his arrogance as sincerely as he dislikes her middleclass, mercenary mother. It is a classic case of love at first slight. As Darcy...
Arching Lines. Project Argus began with a suggestion from Nicholas Constantine Christofilos, 42, a remarkable engineer-scientist of limited academic training but highly original ideas. For centuries, scientists have known that the earth behaves as if it had a great bar magnet inside it; lines of magnetic force make compass...