Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best known for having developed the Corvair; though the car has had recent safety and sales problems, it is still counted a success in G.M. circles. An articulate man with an outgoing personality, Cole should be the favorite for the big job if G.M. is anxious to polish its public relations image, which became somewhat tarnished under austere Fred Donner. But Cole has a black mark on his record: he was less than stringent in enforcing Donner's policy against participation in auto racing...
...There's nothing like a dame," sang the Navymen in South Pacific. Not so, say physiologists. There are people who are something like a dame but are really men, or even a combination of male and female because nature has scrambled their chromosomes. Last week a star Polish athlete found "herself" in one of these anomalous categories and was barred on medical grounds from international competition...
...straying from the path of true Marxism-Leninism. Hungarian Communist Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs makes a distinction between the "disfigured Marxism" that is official party doctrine and what he calls "unfalsified Marxism," while the Yugoslav magazine Praxis warns that effective Marxism "must be completely free of party pressure." And Polish Writer Jan Szewczyk muses publicly whether Marxism is "a bolt of Red cloth that anyone may cut in whatever shape pleases...
...housing ordinance for Milwaukee, Father James E. Groppi has managed to both inspire and infuriate the city's 365,000 Roman Catholics. Last week, as Groppi led still another round of protest demonstrations by Negroes from Milwaukee's Inner Core, more than 400 whites-many of them Polish-American Catholics-marched on the residence of Archbishop William Cousins bearing a coffin labeled "Father Groppi Rest in Hell." Addressing the crowd through a police bullhorn, Cousins promised to consider their complaints-and then issued an open letter to the city disavowing Groppi's methods but backing his objectives...
...which had recently been carried off from the Vatican by invading French soldiers. Pope Pius VII liked the new Canova so much that the Roman authorities refused to grant an export permit, and it was bought for the Vatican where it now stands. (The Apollo was also returned.) A Polish countess, Valeria Tarnowska, then commissioned a second Perseus, which many consider even more finely modeled and technically expert than the first. The Polish countess paid 3,000 Italian gold sequins for it (about $120,000). Her heirs sold it in 1850, after her death, to a wealthy Austrian family...