Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon's stop watch, it was time to end the qualifying heat and prepare for the marathon ahead. As odds-on favorite for the Republican presidental nomination, he had to give serious consideration to the choice of a running mate. He also set out to polish position papers for the G.O.P. Platform Committee, and write an acceptance speech. For his retreat, he borrowed a white bungalow at California's Newport Beach that resounded all week to pounding waves from the West...
...week's end, the Soviet Politburo broke up into two groups and reportedly departed for the summit. One group was believed to have gone via Warsaw to brief Polish officials prior to the conference, and the other by way of East Germany to consult with party leaders there. The conference would most likely take place at either a villa at Zlatá Idka near Košice or a country lodge in the High Tatra Mountains. In both places, the Soviet leaders could easily beckon Russian troops who are tarrying in Eastern Slovakia. However close the troops...
...only interim paper to survive, the Detroit American, fanned the hysteria. Converted from a Polish-language daily to an English one in April, it has built up a claimed 178,500 circulation by concentrating on crime. "Crummy vicious street punks continued to rob and beat pedestrians over the weekend," began a typical story. Another told of a Miami socialite who had learned how to shoot after being robbed four times...
Fire on the Sabbath. The son of Polish immigrants who went to Jerusalem when he was a child, Goren was a Talmudic prodigy who became Palestine's youngest ordained rabbi at the age of 16, a year later published a scholarly study of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah...
...leading characters in Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin's best-selling chiller about the powers of darkness at work in a Manhattan apartment building. Now Old Nick, along with a covey of attendant diabolists, is making Rosemary's life miserable in a film version by Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion). Even readers of the book (2,300,000 copies) who know how Baby comes out are in for a pleasant surprise: the very real acting ability of Mia Farrow...