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...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...
POLAND'S POZNAN FAIR will attract splashiest U.S. show yet made behind Iron Curtain. Heartened because 1,135,000 people visited U.S. display last year, Commerce Department will erect $175,000 glass-and-aluminum permanent building, plus a TV studio and four smaller buildings. For 1958 fair, U.S. will spend...
When it comes to fiddling, there is hardly a more important contest in the world than Poland's two-week Wieniawski Violin Competition.* The contest opened in Poznan this year with 45 contestants from eleven countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...