Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmly than they recently treated Khrushchev (TIME, July 27 et seq.), Poland's Communist government had carefully kept quiet the time and place of the Vice President's arrival, and the Warsaw press said nothing about the route his party would follow into Warsaw. As further insurance, Polish Communists decreed that only 500 people would be allowed onto Babice Airport to meet...
None of this careful planning bothered Warsaw's freedom-minded people. While Nixon in his brief arrival speech was drawing smiles from Polish officials with a tactful mention of Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover's Polish birthplace, Makowa Village, and recalling that two Polish glass blowers had been among the first settlers at Jamestown, Va., the excluded crowds waved and shouted beyond the airport gates. And when Nixon's Russian ZIS limousine started out of Babice toward the city, all semblance of formality disappeared...
...heart than corn. He is full of it. On the last lap of his ten-day state visit to Poland (TIME, July 27), before flying home to Moscow and Richard Nixon, Khrushchev tore up his official itinerary. Instead of a visit to a Poznan factory where the Polish rebellion against Communist rule began in June 1956, Khrushchev insisted on making an impromptu inspection of one of Poland's corn-growing cooperative farms. As Khrushchev and Polish Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka climbed out of their black limousine, Western correspondents (whom Khrushchev jovially called "my sputniks") confidently started to follow them. They...
...reason soon became clear. One of the few Marxist heresies that Gomulka has not stamped out in his campaign to restore Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
Lesson in Etiquette. The Polish tour ended without any serious mishap for Khrushchev, but nonetheless, as the New York Times Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal reported, "Khrushchev usually got ten seconds of applause in exchange for about fifty minutes of speech...