Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Party's Watchdogs. Last week, as delegates of the 1,130-member Polish Writers' Union gathered in Lodz, Poland's second largest city, they were clearly not inclined to endanger those gains. Another congress in 1968 had vigorously protested the cultural repression of Gierek's predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, and brought down the wrath of the regime. Jewish writers were particular targets; Antoni Slonim-ski, a patriarch of contemporary Polish literature, was denounced by Gomulka as "not a proper Pole...
Direction Berlin and Kill the Black Sheep. Two Polish Films. The director and screenwriter will discuss the films. 1737 Cambridge St. 7, Feb. 19. Free...
Most of the police, as well as the Irish, the Italians and the Polish, nonetheless feel that everyone is prejudiced against them and that no one listens. But Coles, as always, did listen. One thing he heard was angry criticism of "the radicals," "the peace crowd" who "don't really love this country," "the snob-students" and "the professors, the big-brain types who look down on the rest of us." The Middle Americans resent being scorned: "I'm as much of a person as anybody, even if I don't talk a lot of big words...
...large Midwest states the smoothly functioning Edmund Muskie organization makes him the leader in the race for the nomination. The Muskie candidacy also has drawn an array of impressive endorsements from Midwest political leaders. His Polish origins make him popular in the ethnic wards of Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee. Rural voters have been impressed by his folksy manner. Only in Minnesota and South Dakota, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern territory, is he lagging behind...
Fleet for the '80s. The Soviets are developing great momentum. At present, they are outbuilding the U.S. in naval vessels by the impressive ratio of 8 to 1. In addition, major Polish and East German builders are producing merchant ships for Russia, and the Soviets have ordered others from foreign yards from Japan to The Netherlands. In the frontline, high-sea naval squadrons, some classes of ship are being replaced by more advanced designs after only eight years of operational duty. The Kresta II cruisers (see picture box, next page), whose design is much admired by U.S. naval architects...