Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Head. From dawn till dusk, Red China's 38-player squad hammered away at the ball, pausing for tea and calisthenics every half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...Poster. In the men's singles, the last surviving non-Chinese, Germany's Eberhard Schöler, was eliminated in the semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools in the world that gives a degree in Ping-Pong), and Challenger Li Fu-jung, 22, who resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd...
...seems to have been a bit fixed," commented British Captain Ron Crayden as Chuang stepped up to the awards platform-world champion for the third time in a row. Rumor had it that a poster of Chuang shaking hands with Mao Tse-tung was already up in Peking...
...episodes and occasionally flirted with suicide. He tried heroin and hashish. For years, he once confessed, he was a compulsive masturbator. He wrote love letters in baby talk, named his women like horses (Babu Mio, My Golden Girl), and guzzled bromide by the bottle. He was a fiercely vocal champion of artistic integrity who forced publishers to print the works of half-baked eccentrics. He was a noisily relentless foe of vested interests and social injustice who admired Machiavelli and kept a wad of money in the stock market. He was a mystic. He was also a powerful...
...only other close match came from seventh-man peter Tague, who lost one up after 19 holes. Brian McGuinn, playing in the second slot, faced former Easterns champion Dan Hogan, and lost 4 and 3. The middle of the Crimson squad was no match for Yale's depth, as Mike Millis, John Hawkins, and Steve Bergman all lost by at least three holes...