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Mills College's chic, petite Renata Klara Wlodarczyk (pronounced Vwo-dar-chick), 22, is a Polish-born English major who leaves the West Coast's top women's campus with a Phi Beta Kappa key, a 3.9 average (out of a possible 4.0) and a two-year Marshall Scholarship to Oxford's Lady Margaret Hall College. While her architect father was flying for the R.A.F. in World War II, Renata's mother enlisted in the Polish underground. In 1946 her mother bribed Russian guards and waded with her across a river into Czechoslovakia. Reunited...
...opposed to the content of the declaration," he said-but he was clearly piqued because Ben-Gurion proclaimed it through the rival American Jewish Committee. Moreover, Goldmann knew that the statement did not represent Ben-Gurion's feelings as so often publicly expressed. Last fortnight, Polish-born Nahum Goldmann, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1945, took up Ben-Gurion's longstanding personal challenge, said he would give up his U.S. citizenship and join Israel's new Liberal Party to fight Ben-Gurion. Israelis figured that he might run for public office in the future. Two Israeli Cabinet...
...also had ideas, introducing such novelties as all-day striptease joints which charged only a 50? admission, "taxi-boys" who offered their services as gigolos to lonely lady tourists. He married Helene de Cressac, a Polish-born stripteaser with managerial and artistic talents, and put her in charge of the staging, costuming and choreography of all his clubs...
...spur for the leave-taking was the Lavon affair (TIME, Nov. 7), a five-year-old governmental scandal that has grown as complex and abstruse as a learned commentary on the Talmud. Polish-born Pinhas Lavon was Israel's Defense Minister until 1955, when he was forced from office for what has been mysteriously described as a "disastrous affair'' in the previous year.- Lavon loudly denied responsibility, insisted he had been framed by two of Ben-Gurion's proteges: Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, Director General of the Defense Ministry...
...least of the linguistic assets that Jack Kennedy has going for him is Polish-born Prince Radziwill, husband of Jacqueline Kennedy's chic younger sister Lee, 27. In London last week, multilingual Princess Radziwill was getting set to join the prince in the U.S. and help in the campaign. The prince was already busy stumping in Polish hustings about the U.S. "He enjoys it very much," the princess told British newsmen. "And it is quite all right for him to campaign, although he is a British citizen." She had no comment on a whimsical report that if Brother...