Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zapotocky's history was the standard success story of the Communist who works in the shadows, waiting for his moment. In the days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed...
...Crisis-conflicts" from the outside world kept popping up at Lake Success as abruptly as toast in a toaster. U.N. then sent such disagreeable matters to committee. Nobody had yet been able to make the result read like anything but disagreements in a committee meeting...
...Success has given him just a touch of sophistication. The Phillies signed him up three years ago, after his one semester in junior college, for a bonus of $4,500. "I was just a kid then," he says, "and didn't know what the score was." Last week, after taking his Dad to Chicago's 606 Club (a striptease joint), he remarked offhandedly: "I've seen better in Boston...
...worry, perforated by ulcers, 20th Century man lives his much-cartooned life sandwiched between the deep blues and high blood pressure. Starting this month, he may take a new lease on life: his problems have been taken in hand by the author of the century's bestselling success story, How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...publishing team responsible for Look's success was President (and Editor) Gardner Cowles and his blonde wife Fleur Fenton Cowles, 38, associate editor...