Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ping-pong reconnaissance missile, fired with a bazookalike launcher, is programmed to zoom over an enemy position, take pictures, then fire reverse rockets to fly back to the launch site and land by parachute...
Following this, and also directed by Ken Sateriale, is Saroyan's The Ping Pong Players which is best glossed over. Nick Fuller and Miss DeMott do an adequate job with what is at hand, but as Saroyan states, it is a trivial play about trivial people. An attempt at fancy, it is artificial and drab...
...only thing most Americans know about Ping-Pong is that it is played with wooden paddles and a light little ball that is forever getting lost under the TV set. In Red China, where there are 3,000,000 registered players, it is the national sport. Every commune, factory and office has its Ping-Pong league: in one Shanghai plant alone, there are 140 teams. So it was no surprise when last week's world table-tennis championships got under way in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, that the Red Chinese were head and shoulders above the players from 46 other nations...
...Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...last surviving non-Chinese, Germany's Eberhard Schöler, was eliminated in the semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools in the world that gives a degree in Ping-Pong), and Challenger Li Fu-jung, 22, who resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd of 8,000 as he casually returned smash after smash, biding his time...