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...savviest table-tennis champ who paddled his best point off the court: in 1971 he landed the U.S. team an invitation to play in China, paving the way for Nixon's historic visit the next year; in his native Cardiff, Wales. A cutthroat competitor, Evans bristled at the term Ping-Pong diplomacy (he considered Ping-Pong an "awful" name) and, in fact, was disappointed in the storied match, grumbling that the Chinese gave away points...
...DELHI: The subcontinental tit-for-tat shows no signs of slowing down. U.S. intelligence warns Friday that Pakistan is stepping up activity at a second nuclear test site -- whilst in the my-bomb's-bigger-than-yours stakes, Indian defense minister George Fernandes dismissed Pakistan's test devices as "ping-pong balls," insisting that India's largest blast beat Pakistan's by 45 kilotons to 10. In other words, both sides are battling to escape what Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott -- quoting William Blake -- called a "fearful symmetry...
...basketball with some of the brothers, I was left to watch TV while my friends ran a pledge event known as "Food Beirut." For those not familiar with plain "Beirut," it is a drinking game--much like beer-pong--in which people on opposite sides of a table throw ping-pong balls into cups filled with beer; if a ball goes into a cup, the other team must drink...
...Ping-pong: Pool has Fast Eddie Felson; ping-pong has Forrest Gump...
...Following moderate Iranian president Mohammad Khatami?s call last year for increased contact between the nations, journalists were eager to cast the wrestlers? visit as a sweatier equivalent of the ?ping-pong diplomacy? between the U.S. and China in the early '70s. The team certainly appears to have been well prepared for its diplomatic mission: Said one member, Melvin Douglas of Arizona, ?I know not to walk on carpets with your shoes, I know not to look at the women. Basically, I won't do nothing wrong...