POLAND: Nylon Wonderland

"Do you 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 you."

The speakers were just two of the 50,000 Poles who each day last week filed in from all over the nation to look in wonder at the U.S. exhibit in Communist Poland's...

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