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...patrons in Australia's Queensland have long been accustomed to pass the time by tossing burning cigarette butts out the window, or Ping Pong balls, or whatever other small objects come to hand. Outside, likely as not, sits an all-purpose mini garbage-disposal unit called Bufo marinus, and the beer quaffers amuse themselves by watching this undiscriminating toad gobble up almost anything coming...
Down the road, meanwhile, the U.N. troops were folding up tents in which Israeli and Syrian officers had worked out the details of the cease-fire and disengagement. "They didn't play Ping Pong here, no sir," an Irish colonel said, indicating inside the largest tent a Ping Pong table used by U.N. officers as a conference board. "They didn't even talk to each other." Instead, a Syrian officer would stand at the entrance at one end of the tent and an Israeli officer would stand at the entrance at the other end. A U.N. officer would...
...plan calls for the conversion of the old kitchen and dining room area between Barnard and Briggs Halls into two large suite areas housing ten students. One of the rooms is now used for ping pong and foosball tables and the other is unused...
...Peking airport to welcome President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan. When Bhutto was ushered into Chairman Mao Tse-tung's book-lined study for a ceremonial audience, Chou relinquished his customary place of honor at Mao's right hand to Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and sat on Mao's left instead. Chou conducted two hours of energetic negotiations with Bhutto the following day but excused himself from attending a banquet that evening, explaining, "I am not very well because...
...extremely boring." Three other young titlists came better prepared. Setting their own private record for unicycle riding (50 hr.), they brought along Johnson's baby powder to alleviate what they called "diaper rash" and kept happy in the saddle for a record 50 by playing cards, Ping Pong and pool...