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...Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu (Speaking Frankly), ran staff-written stories that denounced Russian intervention, ranked with Western press coverage for honest, vivid reporting...
...Place for Censorship. Last week Polish newsmen were busily planning a campaign to cut the last strings of censorship and win constitutional guarantees of independence for the press. One of the leaders of the campaign is Eligiusz Lasota, fiery young (29) editor of the weekly Po Prostu, who was resoundingly elected to Parliament last month. His first task in office will be to fight for press freedom. "There is no place for censorship in a democracy," says Lasota. "Without democracy, there is no socialism...
...most courageous journalists in Poland, Lasota has boosted Po Prostu's circulation from 30,000 to 150,000 since taking over as editor in January 1956, says he could quadruple circulation if he had the newsprint. His first act as editor was to fire Po Prostu's staff, since, as, he explained, "It's easier to teach people with ideas how to write than to teach journalists how to have ideas." Packed with ideas, Po Prostu has battled successfully for new youth organizations free of domination by "tired-out" party hacks, attacked Stalinist "reactionaries," urged sweeping reforms...
...clear field to the state-owned Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (formerly the Fascist A.G.I.P.) that has grown under government pampering into a $100 million combine with a stranglehold on Italy's oil and natural gas. Four years ago, after spending some $10 million to find oil in the Po Valley...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose hallowed niches are normally restricted to a full complement of 50 members, took in two more of the elite, to raise its roster to 49: Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Conrad (A Letter from Li Po) Aiken, 67, and Russian-born Composer Igor (The Firebird) Stravinsky, a U.S. citizen since...