Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways to train animals. Regrettably, these by-products are enlarged out of proportion to their importance. "The press," Skinner complains "is always looking for the sensational. As a result they get the piddling instead of the important." Magazines are continually looking for features showing Skinner training pigeons to play ping-pong or count or bang out tunes on the piano. A movie company is now angling for a short showing him training a dog to do tricks. This completely distorts Skinner's work. Actually, every student in Nat. Sci. 114 soon learns Skinner's method of training animals...
When two of us entered the Graduate School Recreation Room to play ping-pong, we noticed two young teen-agers apparently waiting for a table. After we had played several games we invited them to join in and play doubles. Their conduct was proper in every respect. Before we had completed one game, a Yard cop and a buildings official arrived and bodily removed our youthful opponents. We protested that it was as our guests that they were playing. Because of our protest the Yard cop demanded the name of one of us. We resumed play only to be interrupted...
This is the end of the story, but two implications deserve emphasis. In the first place, the police used totalitarian-tinged methods. Secondly, it appears that these are the only facilities for ping-pong in the neighborhood acoessible to the boys. Perhaps these two facts will help explain why next fall the Cambridge youth will be cheering for the Bulldogs. Albert E. Trieschman 1G David M. Heer...
...Panmunjom, U.N. correspondents flocked eagerly around to watch Titoist Levi meet the Red reporters covering the truce talks. The Reds eyed Levi coldly. Said Chu Chi Ping, a Chinese reporter, to Americans: "I enjoy talking to you. I know who you are and where you stand. But this man is neither fish nor fowl...
Then came the fireworks. The gunbearer shot off a spate of ping-pong balls into the ballroom. Whoever caught one of the three white ping-pong balls were to receive a prize. Two men and a woman stepped up to the platform; the first man received a small stuffed elephant, the second a larger stuffed elephant. The woman, after affirming her faith in the GNP, received a stuffed elephant which took four people to carry. The elephant hunt was over...