Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the world, and are popular with women from the mass of Walgreens on up to the class of Saks Fifth Avenue. Long before Revson died of cancer last week at 68, Revlon had become the largest U.S. over-the-counter retailer (1974 sales: $606 million) of lipstick, nail polish and potions that women use to make themselves beautiful...
...family. The reason Harvard graduates have has such a profound influence on America--five of them have been U.S. presidents, countless others presidents of corporations--is not so much their innate talent as their good luck at being born to the right parents. Harvard just added the polish and gave the elite's children a chance to get acquainted with each other...
Travelers returning from Poland last week reported that Warsaw is awash with rumors about Pawlowski's fate. He is said to have had his hands broken in prison by the Polish secret police, or to have committed suicide in Modlin prison outside Warsaw. According to one rumor, Pawlowski was arrested at Warsaw airport just as he was leaving on one of his frequent trips abroad. Another story had him picked up by police at his desk in the athletic-training department of the Polish Ministry of National Defense. Since his arrest, more than 100 persons are believed to have...
Savage Caricature. At the same time, the Polish weekly paper Sportowiec (The Sportsman) published an article entitled "Decline of a Hero," which characterized a certain famous sports figure, identified as "P," as having a secret life that he had hidden under the mask of a fencer. The Polish weekly newspaper Literatura ran a savage caricature representing Pawlowski as a sinister spy whose fencing thrust is parried and his saber broken as he tries to gather military secrets. Such attacks on Pawlowski in the official press suggest that he may still be alive and that Polish leaders aim to prepare public...
Died. Pinhas Sapir, 66, Israel's political gray eminence; of a heart attack; during a visit to Nevatim, a Negev agricultural village. Nicknamed "Bulldozer" for his drive and blunt pugnacity, burly, Polish-born Sapir immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was jailed by the British in 1933 for his militant labor organizing, and became David Ben-Gurion's roving weapons buyer during the 1948 war of independence. As Commerce and later Finance Minister for most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms...