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...reigning figure who did come to the Sejm, apologizing for his mistakes, was the durable Józef Cyrankiewicz, 59, who moved up to Spychalski's ceremonial position as President after 21 years as Premier. He was succeeded by Deputy Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz, 61, who was also promoted from deputy Politburo member to full member. In his placating acceptance speech, Jaroszewicz announced that the new regime intended to seek "full normalization of relations" with the Roman Catholic Church, to which 95% of all Poles nominally belong. Full normalization was more than Gomulka had ever sought; the new regime seemed...
...confusion onstage was loudly reminiscent of a 1961 broadcast during which the BBC startled England with a perform ance of Mobile for Tape and Percussion, identified as the work of young, avant-garde Polish Composer Piotr Zak (TIME, Aug. n). Composer Zak's cacophonous creation lasted twelve minutes and left the London Times complaining desperately: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly be cause of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Zak's Mobile proved to be the handi work of two pranksters...
Called Mobile for Tape and Percussion, the thing was identified to the audience as the work of one Piotr Zak, a young avant-garde Pole considered "one of the most controversial figures in contemporary music." Zak's "work" was a dreadful cacophony punctuated by rattles, bangs and random blows on a xylophone. Next morning the music critics passed learned if mystified judgment. Wrote the London Times: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly because of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Agreed the Daily...
...Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province, swung his saber with the toughest of them. Wounded at Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), where Voroshilov was in command, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner...
...Kremlin the night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice: "The Office of the Commandant of the Kremlin regrets to announce the premature death February 15th of Major General Piotr Yevdokimovich Kosynkin and expresses its condolences to the bereaved family." Kosynkin was one of the chiefs of Stalin's bodyguards...