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...short, the great Ping Pong mission had turned the familiar big-power contest into a whole new game -intricate, fascinating and almost certain to influence international relations for decades to come...
Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response. Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good...
...marched onto the floor and intertwined hands, then they marched off again. But where were the tables? Suddenly, 50 or so Chinese men, women and children dressed in red jump suits danced onto the floor in time to music, carrying the tables and green barrier boards to stop stray Ping Pong balls. Two games were played at a time, and Cowan, who wore a red headband to keep back his hair, was an obvious favorite of the crowd. "We had the impression the Chinese were trying hard not to embarrass us by lopsided scores," said Tim Boggan. They...
...electronic circuit-is just as much fun; the changing patterns encourage him to make noises so that he can watch the visual effects his sounds produce. With the retarded, another favorite -because it makes no motion that the children would consider threatening-is a sealed transparent tube holding two Ping Pong balls that float in slow motion from end to end, their movement held to a reassuring snail's pace by the resistance of the trapped...
...deals have been made through the third parties or foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms. American companies have been barred from doing business directly with China, and Peking has professed a distaste for dealing head-on with "American imperialists." Even Ping Pong diplomacy has not yet changed the official stance of the Chinese, but they have no ideological objections to buying from U.S. subsidiaries...