Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Brandt, who seeks to lay the basis for a historical development that may ultimately overcome Europe's deep division, spoke from Moscow on television to the Germans. "Europe neither ends on the Elbe River nor on the Polish eastern border," he declared. "Russia is inextricably interwoven to Europe, not only as an opponent and a danger, but also as a partner, historically, politically, culturally and economically. Only if we in Western Europe recognize this partnership, and only if the people of Eastern Europe see it too, can we balance our interests...
...Rogers plan is not an initiative for peace," maintained Begin. "It is an initiative for Israel's destruction." The Polish-born Begin, who was commander of the Jewish terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi in pre-independence days, appeared to be digging in his heels for both principle and politics. Elected to the first Knesset after independence, he has been Labor's principal opposition ever since, occasionally with effective results. Shortly before the 1967 war, Begin forced Premier Levi Eshkol to give up his added post of Defense Minister to the more aggressive and knowledgeable Moshe Dayan...
Born in Manhattan to a Polish immigrant couple in 1905, he used to skip high school classes to spend the day at the Metropolitan Museum. As a student at the Art Students League, he became aware of the dilemma that Malevich and Mondrian had left their successors: where to go from white on white and skin-and-bones geometry? "Painting is finished, we should all give it up," he told a friend, Painter Adolph Gottlieb. World War II added a new dimension to his personal crisis. "How can you continue painting guys playing the fiddle, flowers and sweetness when...
...Gurion's Polish-born wife Paula, who died in 1968, once said: "Anyone can be a Prime Minister, but not everyone can be a Ben-Gurion." Her husband, whose last name literally means "son of a lion cub," was Israel's principal founder in 1948; he chose the name of the new country, served as its Premier for its first 15 years and, as "B-G," became a stern, uncompromising but well-loved father figure. Since 1965, however, he has become less and less active in politics...
Died. General Wladyslaw Anders, 77, commander of World War II's famed 2nd Polish Corps, which fought gallantly in Italy; of a stroke; in London. The commander of a cavalry brigade in 1939, Anders was captured by the invading Russians, and imprisoned along with thousands of other officers until 1941 when they were released to fight the Germans. His corps will be remembered for its dogged and victorious assault on Italy's Monte Cassino Monastery, which opened the road to Rome...