Word: tung
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Those slogans, chanted by Red Guards as they paraded down the streets of Peking in 1967, signaled the downfall of China's pragmatic chief of state Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch'i); Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who regarded Liu as a rival for power, had deemed him to be the nation's chief enemy. Last week the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting secretly in Peking, reversed Mao's verdict and effectively rewrote the past 13 years of Chinese history...
Filling in for ailing head coach Jack Barnaby, assistant coach Elyse Jacobs took the helm at this weekend's Women's Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association tournament and guided Becky Tung, Harvard's number one racquet woman, to an impressive eighth-place finish and a spot on this year's All-Ivy team...
...Tung, seeded eighth in the tourney, advanced to the third round by stopping top players from the University of Vermont and the University of Washington, scoring 3-0 victories in both matches. She then lost to Pine Manor's Jane Giammattei, the 1979 National Junior Champion...
Dropping into the feed-in consolation bracket, Tung licked her next two opponents, Sally Bachman and Tracy Ball, Yale's number four and number one players...
Jacobs also said that last weekend's performance should assure Tung of an eighth-place national ranking, which a committee of coaches will determine on the basis of the players' overall records and final standings in this tournament. Tung also finished last season ranked eighth in the nation...