Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taber reports that Giscard, an avid and critical reader of the magazine, attacks transcripts of his talks with a green felt-tipped pen -and a precise feel for English nuance. Giscard's editing affected the stylistic polish of his answers but not their substance, and what the French President said proved to be of more than usual interest to his countrymen. His remarks in a recent interview with Taber, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers (TIME, Oct. 7) were widely reported and analyzed by the French radio and press. Such scrutiny...
...Hillels' color documentary, Of Pure Blood, shown recently on British television and shortly to be released all over Europe, is built around interviews with survivors and former officials of Lebensborn. In the film's most poignant se quence, an aged Polish woman pleads for some sign of affection from her daughter, taken as a girl from her by Himmler's men and now, 32 years later, a hausfrau in Flensburg, West Germany. Next on the screen is a lawyer coolly explaining that the daughter considers herself German and has no desire to remember the past...
...true that the Soviet Union was the only country that came to the assistance of war-ravaged Poland. First of all, Poland received aid from UNRRA amounting to a half-billion dollars. Besides, at the order of the Kremlin, the Polish Communist government rejected aid offered under the Marshall Plan. It is equally untrue that the Communist regime never tried to endanger the church. On the contrary, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and scores of other Catholic priests spent years in prison. It is also not true that the Communist regime is for free movement of peoples, ideas and information. Travel...
...Polish Council of Unity...
...accurate forecast but an unnecessary one. After a few more picketing assignments-notably antiwar demonstrations in New York and the Poor People's March on Washington-Valerie and Dick moved to Los Angeles, where Schaal founded his own theater company, including Valerie, who acquired some polish and a few more ounces. When she heard that MTM was auditioning for the part of a Bronx Jewish girl, she tried out without much hope: "I'm not Jewish, not from New York, and I have a small shiksa nose." She was, in fact, a lapsed Catholic...