Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tourists roaming the hilltop house read with interest the titles of the books the owner kept in his bathroom, view the bullfight posters that dot the walls, pose for pictures beside his typewriter. Then they line up to sign the guest book, usually in Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, even Vietnamese. The house, a museum maintained by Cuba's National Council of Culture, was Ernest Hemingway's retreat just outside Havana. Of the nearly 18,000 yearly visitors who tramp through, over 70% are Russian. "The Russians have a great respect for Papa," said the caretaker, former Hemingway Servant Rene...
...squabbling among his visitors provided a welcome change in agenda from the showdown involving his leadership that seemed inevitable three months ago. His challenger was Mieczyslaw Moczar, chief of Poland's secret police and head of its influential partisans' organization, who had exploited several areas of Polish dissatisfaction to gain impressive leverage for himself. Chief among these issues was the Kremlin's overbearing influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar also exploited Poland...
...trio's exploits began in April 1967. Master Sergeant Wolf-Diethard Knope, a Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...
...Polish immigrant who had a tailor shop in the Lower East Side, Fink likes to stroll through the neighborhood where he played as a boy. He has trained his men to look the other way when hippies panhandle tourists. In return, their leaders cooperate with police in returning runaway minors to their parents, and help Fink keep track of narcotics in the neighborhood...
...coincidentally, its pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. A. Criswell, is serving as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Despite its urban location, First Baptist preserves the folksiness and fervent spirit of a country congregation. Architecturally, the church is a 19th century red brick horror, but inside age and polish have mellowed its determined ugliness. The services, too, have a turn-of-the-century flavor. Sermons, by Criswell or one of his three assistant pastors, are four-square Gospel messages; the congregation's favorite hymns are What a Friend We Have in Jesus and Need Thee Every Hour...