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...Neighbors. Nowhere in divided Poland was the pattern of these scenes clearer than in a six-story limestone apartment building at No. 16 Aleja Szucha (Warsaw's Pennsylvania Avenue), where two prominent Poles reside in two modest flats. One was little-known Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State without Portfolio (but with plenty of jobs), one of the most powerful members of Poland's Communist ruling clique. The other was lantern-jawed, indomitable Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the anti-Communist Polish Peasant Party who, of all Polish public figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest...
Although the psychological pressures that complicate a serviceman's return to academic life have received careful attention from various offices, the pattern of readjustment is not yet clear. For one thing, the veteran finds himself initially bewildered by the sudden array of responsibilities that confront him when he returns to college. The veteran may consider himself fortunate to be clear of that chain of command that formerly made decisions for him. But with the blessing of external freedom has come the impact of an over-severe self-judgment which has focused itself narrowly upon the accepted standards of academic success...
...parishioners,* startled ecclesiastical mossbacks by organizing a trade school, sewing school, boys' club, men's club and summer camps under church auspices. Young clergymen coveted appointments as his assistants to learn this new technique of urban church-with-community-center. St. George's set a popular pattern...
Says liberal Edward Miller of his new job: "St. George's has shown that the more a church strives to include all people, the more it bears faithful witness to God's pattern for peace. . . . The Holy Table at St. George's has for generations been a meeting point at which men of all classes and races could gather-a constant reminder that God cares for all men. . . . When people of different backgrounds and interests learn to share their hopes and beliefs within a parish, the foundations of world understanding are being laid...
...Jersey, the pattern was the same. Red-faced, stiff-collared Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City had long been delivering 100,000 pluralities in his Hudson County bailiwick. That was what it took to outvote the Republican suburbs and farmlands. But six years of being at odds with the State House had begun to count. Hague spent money as never before: electioneers got $10 or $20 a day instead of the usual $5. It was not enough. Starved of patronage, outfoxed by voting machines, Hague could deliver only a measly 67,000 plurality in his home county. With another enemy...