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...told a ping-pong opponent, "If you beat me. I'll give you Cuba," and on another occasion decreed that since the baseball team he was pitching for was losing, the game would go into extra innings...
Brandeis is playing this spring without its top doubles team of Romi Yellin and Reid Hardenburgh, the defending Greater Boston champions. Yellin is currently competing in the women's national ping pong championships in Colorado and will be featured on the softball diamond instead of the tennis courts when she returns to Waltham...
...your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough to get out of the smelly lab and travel in what seemed to be outer space. During World War II, Skinner trained them to guide missles...
...most of the survivors are about either masochism or hair fetishism or both. But he did produce one of the great sexual images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that seems merely an aggressive pantomime in a post-psychological culture like ours. Yet nearly 200 years after...
...become editor of the Northern Echo in 1961, was named managing editor of the Sunday Times in 1966 and editor in 1967. Short and slight, he still speaks with flat Yorkshire vowels and spends his few hours out of the Sunday Times office toiling almost obsessively at squash, skiing, Ping Pong and a book on photojournalism. He also serves as an occasional panelist on a television quiz show titled, aptly enough, Call My Bluff. Evans has long argued that British journalism should end its preoccupation with the elegant expression of opinion and tackle more American-style investigative reporting. "The growing...