Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 25 years there were striking changes in the people of Shanghai. In the old days, it was hard for a foreigner to walk along the Bund-the wide promenade along the Whangpoo, which has been renamed Chung Shan Road -without a procession of beggars, cripples and the just plain curious following behind. Walking to work in the old days, I had developed my own special clientele of beggars who got paid off each day, and who in return fended off the other beggars. Now the beggars and cripples were gone, but the ranks of the curious had grown...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...
Finally, at No. 17 Chung Shan Road, there stood the gray stone building where TIME and LIFE had their offices on the sixth floor. I peered in through a grille and saw huge portraits of Lenin, Marx and Mao. The heavy bronze gates in the doorway of the building looked just the same. Even the faded gold mosaic of the lobby was just a shade grimier. Peering into the vestibule, I could see the rheumatic old elevators, still alive but having more difficulty than ever getting upstairs...
When they went to the polls under martial-law conditions last November, South Koreans dutifully gave 91% approval to a new constitution that awarded President Chung Hee Park sweeping powers and unlimited terms of office in which to use them. But recent elections for the National Assembly provide a different story. Despite curbs on press coverage, legislation banning door-to-door canvassing and the best efforts of the secret police to stir up trouble within the opposition, Park's Democratic Republican Party won only 38% of the vote, while candidates who campaigned against him polled a surprising...
...intellectual figures in Saigon that a ceasefire is imminent and that Thieu's position is hopeless. "Thieu is finished," contends an anti-Communist Vietnamese scholar. "He was, perhaps, the man for war. He is not the man for peace. We must have a new man." Agrees Ly Quy Chung, a deputy in the South Vietnamese lower house: "We must prepare for the new political struggle. We must have a new team and not the one that has lost the war, or they will lose again." The battle for political control after a ceasefire, predicts a Saigon economist...