Word: polishes
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When Lyndon Johnson picked his Postmaster General, lohn Gronouski, to be U.S. Ambassador to Poland, just about everyone remarked on his lack of diplomatic credentials. But the President had something more in mind for his ex-Cabinet member than sitting around Warsaw waiting to see elusive Polish officials. In effect, he made him his envoy to Eastern Europe, with specific marching orders to travel and to build as many new bridges as possible between the U.S. and the Communist nations. Last week Gronouski finished the first phase of that mission, a tempestuous, ten-day tour of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary...
Room for Initiative. Gronouski, the grandson of a Polish immigrant and a former university economics professor, has turned into an effective, if somewhat unconventional, diplomat. He pumps Polish hands, kisses Polish babies, stalks the streets of Warsaw in his cocked grey astrakhan, gabs with Polish waiters at embassy cocktail parties. That casual curiosity stood Gronouski in good stead during his Eastern European swing. The first stop was Rumania, the most independent of the former Soviet satellites and the most eager for U.S. trade (TIME cover, March...
...stem such discontent, Eastern European countries are making it tougher for students to get into college and are channeling more of them into trade schools, which often lead to better-paying jobs. When Polish children complete their new, eight-grades schooling, one-fifth go on to four-year academic high schools, the rest to trade schools. After that they can take competitive exams for university training, but only 33,000 out of 80,000 applicants made it last year...
Communist indoctrination in schools has perforce turned soft-sell. Polish universities dropped compulsory-and widely scorned-cram courses in "Rudiments of Marxism-Leninism," now offer more flexible discussion courses on "Main Problems of Marxist Philosophy." Grade schools offer a new course called "civic education" directed at convincing children of "the superiority of the socialist system over the capitalist system," mainly by studying the party organization and local government in action...
Next year Bullitt sets forth from his Widener cubicle for a one-year stint with the Peace Corps. In June, he leaves for Washington to polish up his newly-acquired Spanish--he is taking Spanish Bab and working at it--and to learn about Latin American culture. That done, he will leave for a South American country, probably Peru, to become Peace Corps Deputy Representative there. In that position, he will be helping volunteers get settled and happy in their work. But, for all its forms and tests, the Peace Corps is pretty much a catch as catch can affair...