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...1940s, Mila Brener and Ya'acov Meridor would have seemed the least likely candidates imaginable for the job of rescuing the sinking British shipbuilding industry. Both men were then Zionists fighting British forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options...
Died. Paul Kletzki, 72, Polish-born violinist and conductor, music director of the Dallas Symphony (1958-61) and Geneva's I'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1967-70); after collapsing while conducting a rehearsal of the Liverpool Philharmonic; in Liverpool, England...
Resettlers Welcome. Polish-born pensioners who have spent most of their lives in the U.S. are allowed to re-establish residence in Poland without having to give up their American citizenship or even their Social Security benefits. They can take in their belongings, including cars, duty-free. Through special banks and stores dealing only in hard currency, they have access to goods and services unavailable to other Poles. Most Poles have to wait five to seven years for an apartment; "resettlers," as the emigrants-come-home are called, can buy a modern flat immediately for about $2,500. Most important...
...appreciate the damage that this sort of sloppiness can do, it is useful to invoke the late Count Alfred Korzybski, inventor of general semantics. Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks...
...ruinously high cost of running for political office in the U.S. tends to sabotage the democratic process. Polish-born Mathematician Martin Krakowski, a private consultant in Washington, has an idea that might not and exorbitant campaign spending but would at least keep every candidate nervously honest...