Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom." To restore the "aim of life and joy in living" that might allay the "bitterness, nihilism, hooliganism and drunkenness" in the land, said Stomma, "confidence must be mutual-of people in authorities, but even more so of the authorities in the people. Only in this way can Polish society be united...
Tipped off that Venezuela's censors were responsible only for press messages in English and Spanish, Poland-born Reporter Szulc sent cables in Polish to a business address on Fifth Avenue, where a Polish-speaking friend had agreed in advance to translate and relay his files to the Times. He also smuggled out background stories each day with outbound airline passengers...
...Times's street address-using a prearranged code ("Regret inform you 24 boilers out of order") to relay casualty totals. When last Monday's school strike in Caracas proved a success, Newsman Szulc succeeded in getting a telephone connection to New York, dictated his entire story in Polish to his businessman-friend. The morning after Pérez Jiménez' ouster, early-rising Tad Szulc had the first press interview with Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal...
...beautiful youngest daughter. With guilt and confusion, he recalls a day ten months before when Stella, a stranger, climbed in beside him as his empty hearse idled at a stop light, said "Take me to your place.'' Slowly some details emerge: he drove her from the Polish quarter of their New Jersey factory town to a cheap Manhattan hotel, later fled, left her to stare vacantly at the ceiling. The symbolism of the recollected scene-the hearse and the casual bed, death and lust-could scarcely be more heavyhanded, but it is a measure of Author Bankowsky...
...durability is that many of its best-known staffers, including Cartoon Editor (and Co-Founder) Eryk Lipinski, 49, have long been Communists or fellow travelers and know intuitively how deep they can sink their shafts. In a country that has long suffered satirists more willingly than reporters, Polish newsmen believe that Szpilki is so popular (circ. 165,000) that it is virtually assassination-proof...