Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gordon, whose Chi cago district is heavily Polish, President Eisenhower revealed last week that the U.S. not only is arranging to sell Communist Poland farm surplus commodities (TIME, Jan. 14) but also will allow the Poles to purchase on credit. Wrote Ike to Gordon: the transactions "would ease economic difficulties of the Polish people," also "clearly reveal that the door remains open to a closer relationship" with the U.S. and other free nations...
...democracy could have managed it. Of the 18 million eligible voters in Poland's free general election last week, 94.14% went to the polls, and of that number, 98.5% voted the straight Communist ticket. The result, which surprised even the Communists, was no indication of how the Polish people feel about Communism: it merely showed how much they preferred the Polish brand of Communism to Soviet intervention. Roman Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski, recently freed from a Communist prison, had quietly advocated support of the party ticket, and his word was obviously effective in a land perhaps 95% Roman Catholic. This...
Last week Gomulka postponed the Polish Workers' Party Congress, at which he would have had to announce executive and policy changes. Poland was now the country of the Comrade and the Cardinal. The election had reaffirmed the importance of the Cardinal, but the Comrade was still running things...
...Inquirer meet, he ran a slow 4:10.8, finished third behind Boston's George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time for the 70-yd. high hurdles. Olympian...
...Polish letter read as follows: "President of the Harvard University, Cambridge-Boston. Sir, I address to you with a pray: can you let send me a Manual of English and American Literature and Grammar and a Manual of English and American History? It's impossible here to get these books. Yours Faithfully, mgr. Michel Winogrodzki, schoolmaster, Silesia, Poland...