Word: poznan
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...Poznan last week, a Polish farmer -i dug deep into his pocket to pull out a roll of dog-eared but treasured U.S. greenbacks. "If it's dollars you want," he said, "I've got them." Others like him cheerfully proffered their savings in zlotys in a vain effort to buy for themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every...
...think anyone like us could ever have a house like that?" a Polish housewife asked her husband as they stood fn Poznan gazing wistfully at a snug, gadget-filled house typical of middle-income U.S. suburbia. "Not in a thousand years!" came the answer from another gawper near by. "And even if they let you have it, the housing authorities would jam two other families in with...
Under the Dome. It was in the wake of the same fair last year that the riots broke out which started Poland on its path of quasi-independence from Moscow. Present for the first time at Poznan, the U.S. exhibit was by all odds the hit of the show, and dominated the entire fa11" grounds. Except for the model house and some outdoor turntables on which stood a gleaming selection of U.S. cars (with prices posted), it was housed beneath the gossamer translucence of one of Designer Buckminster Fuller's nylon-covered geodesic domes, a silvery half-grapefruit rising...
Tracking down young "gulls" (Baltic word for the trade), "glories" (Poznan's description), "artists" (in Cracow) and "debris girls" (in Warsaw, where many practice their trade in dilapidated, damaged houses), earnest Investigator Lastik found only 5% of Warsaw's prostitutes prospering, although his figures do not include "society ladies, presumptuous divorcees and widows with a nice flat and a telephone who are visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested...
FIRST U.S. TRADE SHOW behind Iron Curtain will unveil low-cost American fashions at Poznan International Fair in Poland this June. To ill-clad satellite housewives, Manhattan's Ohrbach's will display $600 wardrobe for family of four, emphasize synthetic fabrics with prices indicated to underscore U.S. bargains. Polish mannequins will model the styles...