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...tiny village near Kielce, residents recently celebrated a local store's purchase of a new padlock by guzzling 141 quarts of vodka in one night. It hardly helps that minor Polish officials wink at the nation's drunks. When a man checked in at a Poznan sobering-up station for the 40th time not long ago, the $250 debt that he owed the state for previous nights in the cooler was wiped off the books to honor his record performance...
...Rajewski, director of Warsaw's archaeological museum, gathered students and laborers to resume a fascinating job that started more than 25 years ago: the excavation of Biskupin, a surprising pocket of ancient civilization wondrously preserved for 2,500 years under a Polish lake about 50 miles northeast of Poznan. Hidden beneath the waters are the remains of a thriving agricultural society that lived in the Iron Age, when the Greeks and other civilized Mediterranean peoples considered northern Europe a primeval prowling ground for savages...
...Because of recent dredging of the Gasawka River, the lake's level had fallen 10 to 15 feet, and the schoolmaster spotted long rows of logs sticking out of a mud flat at a 45° angle. He reported his discovery, and presently Director Josef Kostrzewski of the Poznan museum came down for a look. Preliminary digging showed that the peninsula had once been an island completely covered by a walled village...
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...