Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fleet & Fiery. Top prize of 40,000 zlotys ($1,667) went to Argentina's Martha Argerich, who won by an eyelash over Brazil's Arturo Moreira-Lima. The Polish audiences, who packed Warsaw's splendorous Philharmonic Hall for each session of the grueling three-week contest, took issue with the judges, awarded their longest, loudest ovations to 24-year-old Edward Auer (fifth) from Los Angeles, the first American ever to gain the finals in the prestigious competition for young pianists (age limit: 30). Auer captured the audience's fancy with his bashful manner...
...setting is ostensibly remote-Warsaw's 600-year-old ghetto. And Singer's novel might be read only as a superbly vivid chronicle of its last years, from just before World War I, when dwarfs still sold whips for naughty children in the streets, to the outbreak of World War II, when its destroyed people stared into its shattered ruins as if into Abaddon, the bottomless pit of hell...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Warsaw Uprising," a report on the 63 days in the summer of 1944 during which the Poles battled the German occupation troops with virtually no weapons and no outside help...
...with profit incentives. Hungary has intro duced a form of profit sharing, and in a deviation from Marxist ideology unique in the bloc, has imposed an interest rate of 5% on capital. To push exports, Poland has permitted three firms to set up their own foreign-trade pipelines, bypassing Warsaw to deal directly abroad. Yugoslavia long ago created a "Socialist market economy"-relatively competitive enterprise under state ownership...
Pretty Rina Eitani, 35, seems as Jewish as Rebecca. She was one of those who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, landed in Palestine as a refugee in 1947. She joined a kibbutz, served in the Israeli army, raised her son and daughter as Jews, and though nonobservant, celebrates Judaism's major feasts in her house. Now she is a town councilor of Israel's Mapai (Labor) Party in Upper Nazareth...