Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began, as all great ventures must, with an idea. Cerebral, bespectacled Polish Emigré Czeslaw Bojarsky found himself in postwar Paris with an architectural engineer's degree, a distinguished war record, a wife and child to support-and a language barrier that barred him from practice. He tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note...
...predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. There are still 22 Russian divisions in East Germany; certainly some could be called back, but to withdraw all of them suddenly would probably cause the regime of Walter Ulbricht to collapse. Poland still has three Soviet divisions, but the Russians remain unobtrusive, and Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka paranoically fears that a Russian pullback would encourage German encroachment on the Oder-Neisse line. Only Hungary's Janos Kadar could profit from the removal of the four or five Russian divisions still in his country: they serve as a constant reminder of Moscow...
...Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry. His work has already commandingly established him as the greatest living master of Yiddish prose and as one of the enduring leaders among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote in Yiddish for New York's Jewish Daily Forward. In translation they are brisk, bright and engagingly exotic. Even readers who have never heard a shofar will recognize the book as a letter from home...
...Johnsonian veil of secrecy, the selection process has already begun. Last week the President named Zbigniew Brzezinski, the astute, dynamic director of Columbia University's Research Institute on Communist Affairs since 1961, to a secondary but sensitive and influential post on State's Policy Planning Council. Polish-born and Canadian-reared, Brzezinski, a U.S. citizen since 1958, has been a persuasive advocate for the U.S. position in Viet Nam at widely publicized teach-ins. He is singularly attuned to the many nuances of modern Communism and has suggested bold departures in American policy to capitalize on the changes...
...company to find a new president, Dan Rodgers, 46, until now vice president of the competitive American Home Products Corp. With Revlon selling well in cosmetics, Rodgers, who succeeds George H. Murphy, is likely to concentrate on some of the company's subsidiary products, such as shoe polish, dyes, plastic flowers and women's sportswear...