Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Leap Forward techniques, who once was denounced by Gomulka himself for his mistakes as chief economic planner from 1954 to 1956. Another deputy premiership went to Julian Tokarski, the pre-Gomulka Minister of Motorcar Industry whose clumsiness in rebuffing worker demands led to the Poznan riots of June 1956. A third advocate of harsh centralized controls, Moscow-oriented Tadeusz Gede, was elevated to a prominent post in the State Economic Planning Commission...
...most successful agencies have carved out their own special little piece of the travel market and concentrated on it. Among the fastest growers are the nationality agencies, usually run by first-generation Americans who send aged immigrants back for a last look at the old country. Cleveland's Poznan Travel Agency, opened two years ago by Tax Consultant Joseph Kupniewski, does 90% of its thriving business with aged Polish immigrants who have saved for decades to make the trip...
...closer to Nikita Khrushchev's 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...
...part of his unofficial diplomatic career, Capitalist Winston has been tapped by Mayor Robert Wagner to act as New York City's High Commissioner at trade fairs in Poznan, Zagreb, Vienna, Paris. The U.S. Department of Commerce took Winston on as special adviser for trade fairs, and last year Winston was U.S. Special Delegate to the UNESCO General Conference in Paris...
...Poland, the one nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant room for maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar assured him that the final disposition of the Nagy group would be "bloodless." The Secretariat of the Polish Communist Party circulated a letter declaring that Polish Communist leaders "disassociated" themselves from...