Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign is well organized in Illinois under the direction of Angelo Geocaris, who is also a friend of the mayor's. Geocaris has insisted to Daley that if he fails to back Muskie, he might jeopardize his position in Chicago. The Polish wards in particular are ardently pro-Muskie. He is the choice of two of Daley's top lieutenants: Daniel T. Rostenkowski, leader of the Illinois congressional delegation, and Congressman Roman Pucinski, whom Daley has picked to run against Republican Senator Charles Percy. Last week Senator Adlai Stevenson III also endorsed Muskie. A number of people have...
...exaggeration, of course, but almost a forgivable one. What the radio referred to was an agreement this month between Poland and East Germany allowing their citizens to visit each other's countries without the tedious exit formalities, border checks and stringent currency controls (90? a day for Polish tourists) that had made travel between Communist countries since World War II almost as difficult as getting to the West...
Henceforth East German and Polish travelers-and, as of last weekend, East Germans and Czechoslovaks -can cross their respective borders with only an identity card, in much the same way that Western Europeans travel freely in the Common Market...
...instantaneous. Within four days after the new regulations went into effect along the Oder-Neisse frontier, 15,000 Poles trooped into East Germany, snapping up cameras, household appliances and electric shavers, which are almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...
Eastern Europeans generally have more money to spend than opportunity to spend it, and the new freedom to travel-even within the bloc-is a major concession, for which the governments will reap some popular credit. But there may be a few unexpected side effects. Polish citizens, for instance, will be able to see Western television on East German sets, and will probably return home discontented after they see the range of goods available in the shops of more prosperous East Berlin...