Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA Docile & Grey Twenty-four hours after President Antonin Zapotocky, dead of a heart attack, was buried with full Communist honors, the Czech National Assembly last week smoothly elected his successor by a unanimous show of 353 hands. The new President: Antonin Novotny, 52. the onetime locksmith who has been First Secretary of the Czech Communist Party since 1953. In a departure from the post-Stalin taboo against party leaders' taking government posts, Novotny kept his party job. But, like all the other changes inflicted on the nation by the Communists since the 1948 Putsch, this one caused hardly...
...Czech Red leaders speak more of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution than of the man of the moment in the Kremlin. They have not yet fully recognized the Soviet Party Congress or rehabilitated one victim of Stalinism. Party newspapers shy away from Moscow's struggles. They are always ready to jump either...
...Teen-agers annoy old ladies in movies, wind up hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll sessions by jeering at, sometimes battling, cops in the street. The stirrings of intellectuals and the riots of youths have flowered into rebellion in Hungary and a fight for freedom in Poland. But Czechs, subject to foreigners for much of their history, have no tradition of rebellion (their state was handed to them at Versailles when Czechoslovakia was carved by the Allies out of remnants of the Austro-Hungarian empire). They have plastered more and bigger Red stars on their buses and trains than...
Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
Died. Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, 61, Czech-born U.S. biochemist, professor of biological chemistry at Washington University's School of Medicine (since 1947), winner (with her biochemist husband Carl) of a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for studies of the body's uses of starches and sugars; of complications of myelofibrosis, a disease of the bone marrow; in St. Louis...