Word: tung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Frantisek Kriegel, 71, Czechoslovak physician and politician; of a heart attack; in Prague. After serving his profession and political conscience as a medical officer in the Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel returned home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander...
DIED. Chang Kuo-t'ao, 82, one of the twelve founders of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and early rival to Mao Tse-tung for the party's leadership; in Toronto. Chairman of the C.C.P.'s First Congress and member of the party's original triumvirate, Chang came to blows with Mao in 1934 over the strategy of the 6,000-mile Long March retreat. Ousted from the party in 1938, Chang left China when the Communists took over...
...Becky Tung was hard pressed at number one, narrowly defeating Pam Lloyd...
Harrison and Corrigan took over the first two slots because of the absence of Becky Tung and Margo McGlade, who were competing--with little success, it turned out--at the Princeton Invitational Saturday...
After outlasting Tracey Ball of Yale (18-17, 15-11, 10-15, 15-12) in the tournament's opening round, Tung fell to Penn State's Gail Ramsey, the eventual winner, 15-0, 15-7, 15-8. McGlade dropped her opener to Princeton's Kris Kinney...