Foreign News: Local Boy Makes Good

The red brick Church of Our Lady of the Rosary stands modestly on a busy street in Springfield, Mass. Through its massive doors on Sunday pass the parishioners, all Polish. To them there are few better men than the blond, 54-year-old pastor, U.S.-born Father Stanislaus Orlemanski.

Twenty-seven years earlier he had come to this new parish, and bit by bit had built up this church, until it was worth $250,000. Now, he thought, he could devote his time and energy to what worried him greatly: the fate of Poland. In this cause, in the past year, he had attacked the Polish Government...

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