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...Ping-Pong Table. The magazine traveled well (circulation is up 10% since the move, advertising pages up 35% so far this year), but Harris' freewheeling flamboyance did not. Ziff-Davis, the nation's fifth largest magazine publisher (Modern Bride, Popular Photography), is owned by Chairman William Ziff, 46. and run by a button-down battalion of 26 vice presidents. They winced when Harris risked offending liquor advertisers by publishing a tough cover story on drinking; they were displeased when he installed a Ping Pong table at the editorial offices (Harris paid for it himself), and they were confounded...
Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara as Martha and George leer endearingly throughout with maddening control, periodically exploding barrages of verbal fire into vulnerable areas. Their conspiratorial magic transforms metaphysical ping-pong into a cooing and spitting that is pleasing to watch. Richard Kelton as Nick embodies the American Dream to a tee and he plays it with telling emphasis on the ruthlessness of youthful ambition. Maureen Anderman handles what is probably the most difficult role in the play without succumbing to the temptation of making Honey a one-dimensional hysteric...
...expansion plans mentioned above, the Quad owns 15 TV's, 14 laundry rooms with 1-3 washers and 1-3 driers in each, a kitchen and a common living room on nearly every floor of every hall, 2 slate pool tables, innumerable practice, seminar, and study rooms, 6 ping-pong tables, pinball machines, 3 darkrooms, a film workshop with assets of over $2000, a sound recording studio (formerly Radio Radcliffe), 3 woodworking shops, two living rooms or lounges on the first floor of every hall, large art and dance studios, 2 prosperous grilles, plus use of all Hilles' facilities, including...
Both Healy and DePriest were pessimistic about the team's chances of going to Cuba in the near future. They explained yesterday that the team had originally felt that Cuban relations were opening up and that there was an opportunity to participate in "ping-pong diplomacy...
There are also Faculty members who take a less rigorous approach to sports. Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, expressed an interest in squash and tennis along with "shooting pool and ping-pong." When queried as to whether release of tension was a motive for his athletic interests, Case replied, "No--to relieve tension, I drink...