Word: chung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carnegie Hall, the Leventritt jury outdid itself. It ranked the four violin finalists so closely that it took the unprecedented step of asking each to play again. Then, for the first time in the competition's 27-year history, it named two winners: Korea's Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and Israel's Pinchas Zuckerman, 18, both scholarship students at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and products of eminent Juilliard Teacher Ivan Galamian...
...Four years ago, South Korea's tough little retired army general Chung Hee Park scraped into the presidency with a bare 156,000-vote margin over former President (1960-62) and onetime Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over...
...More than 250,000 people lined the sandy banks along the Susongchon River north of Pusan. "We should not delay the national task of modernizing Korea," President Chung Hee Park, 49, told them. "If we stop working now, Korea will waste another 20 years catching up." One hundred fifty miles away in Seoul, Old Campaigner and ex-President (1960-62) Posun Yun, 69, stirred another crowd of 250,000 by warning that Park's economic policies were wrecking the country. What is more, Yun charged, Park's government was "sick with corruption, irregularities and dictatorial authoritarianism...
...chosen few to whom Rhee doled out, at the low official exchange rate, precious U.S. dollars that had been acquired by sales of valuable tungsten. For his profitable dealings in "tungsten dollars," Lee was branded an "illicit profiteer" when Rhee was overthrown in 1961 by Chung Hee Park. He fled to Japan, returned to Korea and resumed operations after Park decided he needed Lee's ability and overseas business contacts to help modernize South Korea. Lee was forced to pay $4,400,000 in back income taxes and tax-evasion penalties, and his shares in three banks were confiscated...
...sent 10,000 engineers and 46,000 battle-shrewd "ROK" (Republic of Korea) troops. Through the Asian Pacific Council, it plays a leading role in promoting regional cooperation. Next week President Park will receive a U.S. economic mission, and South Korea's Prime Minister II Kwon Chung will be in Washington discussing Korean and Viet Nam development with President Johnson. Chung will ask for U.S. financial aid to enlarge Korea's engineering corps in South Viet Nam to as many as 50,000 men, have them undertake an intensive program of building schools, bridges and roads within Korea...