Word: boggan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most improbable-and most naive-group of diplomats. The group was led by Graham B. Steenhoven, 59, a bespectacled, graying Chrysler personnel supervisor who is president of the 3,000-member U.S. Table Tennis Association; Rufford Harrison, 40, a soft-spoken Du Pont chemist from Wilmington, Del.; Tim Boggan, a Long Island University assistant professor; Jack Howard, 36, an IBM programmer, and George Buben of Detroit, who took along his wife. The male players, besides Howard, were Glenn Cowan, a longhaired student from Santa Monica, Calif.; John Tannehill, 19, a psychology major at Cincinnati University; Errol Resek, 29, an immigrant...
...stop stray Ping Pong balls. Two games were played at a time, and Cowan, who wore a red headband to keep back his hair, was an obvious favorite of the crowd. "We had the impression the Chinese were trying hard not to embarrass us by lopsided scores," said Tim Boggan. They did not. The Chinese players won the men's games 5-3 and the women's 5-4. Afterward, the opponents exchanged gifts-matching pen and letter-opener sets for the Chinese, and "Double Happiness" table tennis paddles and balls for the Americans -and walked off hand...