Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have resolved to bear the cross upon my back once more for the nation, forsaking my own personal comforts." With those words, South Korea's President Chung Hee Park earlier this month launched his campaign for a constitutional amendment that would give him a third four-year term. Any similarity between his plight and the march to Calvary, however, was purely coincidental. From all reports, Park has been quite comfortable in the "Blue House," Korea's presidential palace...
...prevent the sort of legalized dictatorship that had prevailed under Syngman Rhee, who ruled for twelve years. Last week, Park came full circle. In a controversial referendum, 11.1 million South Koreans voted by an overwhelming 2-to-l margin to amend the constitution so that he might seek a third term in 1971. Since Park held power for two years before he was first elected in 1963, a third term would give him a total of 14 years in the Blue House, two more than Rhee served...
...conductor began by dropping the baton. He followed that gaffe by indicating one tempo with his hands while calling for another. Still, the musicians did not seem to mind, as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra staggered through Brahms' Third Symphony. "I have never in all my years on the concert stage conducted an orchestra," Artur Rubinstein had confided to the concertmaster. "I have dreamed of it since I was a little boy. You will think me a fool, but would the orchestra permit me to conduct a rehearsal?" The orchestra was only too happy, and the great pianist...
...interrogation-filled days later, Barrymaine was led to a 12-ft. by 8-ft. cell furnished only with a wooden cot and a non-flush toilet. His third night he was awakened by a woman's terrified, heart-rending scream. After a couple of weeks he realized that it came from a tape recorder, placed next to the cells of new arrivals to initiate them...
...crossing" joke, one of the standard bits of yet another TV talk show, this one chaired by David Frost, out of Britain. Clearly, his crossing gags don't travel all that well, but everything else about The David Frost Show is doing very nicely. In its third month of syndication by Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., the series is running in 63 U.S. cities, and already rates No. 1 in its time slot (mostly afternoon) in Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco...