Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mass strikes, demonstrations and riots exploded throughout Poland last summer, paralyzing the nation and provoking panic in Warsaw, dismay in Moscow. The immediate cause of the uprising was a dramatic increase in food prices, but the roots of the rebellion lay deep in the dissatisfaction of the fiercely independent Polish people with Soviet-imposed Communist rule...
...summer protests marked the third time in two decades that insurgent workers had illegally struck against unpopular government measures and won their case. Workers' demonstrations in 1956 and 1970 had even brought down the reigning party chiefs in Warsaw. This time, the present Polish party boss, Edward Gierek, survived the riots by immediately rolling back prices. Still, lingering discontent in Poland, tied to a worsening economic crisis, has produced the classic formula for rebellion. TIME Correspondent Henry Muller recently visited Poland to gauge the public mood as the nation entered what threatens to be a long turbulent winter...
Good meat is virtually unavailable. Sugar has been rationed. Street lights in certain areas are no longer turned on. Although many Poles have money in the bank, there is little to spend it on. The waiting time for a new Polish-built Fiat is from three to five years, and gasoline has risen 70%, to $2.07 per gal., since 1973. About 1.5 million people must share their dwellings with other families; the waiting period for an apartment is often as long as ten years. Sixty miles south of Warsaw, in the town of Radom, where last summer workers set fire...
...urban ethnic and Catholic voters after the defection over McGovern. The heavily Catholic Queens borough of New York City gave Carter a margin 10 per cent greater than Humphrey received in 1968. The South Side of Milwaukee was largely responsible for Carter's surprising win in Wisconsin; the mainly Polish, Lithuanian and South Slav voters of that area gave him a vote upwards of 55 per cent...
...Clamma Dale, for instance, brings to the role of Bess high musical polish and dramatic intelligence, a voice of molten gold and the fierce grace of a stalking leopard. Porgy made her, at 28, an instant star; she is booked for theater, opera and concert appearances through 1978. The youngest child of a middle-class family in Chester, Pa., the incomparable Clamma learned to play the cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and guitar guided by her father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera...