Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar process, Skinner has taught pigeons to dance with each other, and even to play Ping Pong. During World War II, he conceived the idea of using pigeons in guided-missile control; three birds were conditioned to peck continuously for four or five minutes at the image of a target on a screen. Then they were placed in harness in the nose of a missile, facing a screen on which the target would appear when the missile was in flight. By pecking at the image moving on the screen, the pigeons would send corrective signals that moved the missile...
...anticapitalists continue to make capital out of Ping Pong. Preceding the arrival of the Chinese team in the U.S. will be a whole line of Chinese table tennis equipment with the beguiling brand name Double Happiness. The equipment will be marketed by two Los Angeles firms and will boast the endorsement of the Chinese team, with the blessing of Chairman Mao himself...
Even as the Chinese Ping Pong team is anticipating its trip to the U.S., a number of Christian missionary groups are mulling a return to China. The World Evangelism Foundation of Abilene, Texas, has suggested mobilizing 1,000 three-man missionary squads for the eventual evangelization of the mainland. Their credo: "Let us be ready to be first." Another evangelical group has blithely declared that the Chinese government will topple when Mao dies and that would-be saints who go marching in will be greeted by millions of Chinese eager for conversion...
...York Times is something of a presence, even in Peking. Last week, recovered from his appendectomy and acupuncture (TIME, Aug. 9), Scotty Reston came up with the longest and so far the only one-to-one interview with Premier Chou En-lai since the start of Ping Pong diplomacy last April. The formal question-and-answer session lasted three hours, followed by a two-hour dinner in the Fukien Room of the Great Hall of the People. Reston's tone was hardly that of the ordinary newsman. By turns statesmanlike and philosophical, he adopted a semipresidential stance in seeking...
Lackluster Tour. When President Nixon relaxed trade restrictions with China following the first gambits of Ping Pong diplomacy, Agnew warned against a sudden thaw in U.S.-Chinese relationships. Nixon, engaged in delicate negotiations with Peking, did a slow burn over his Vice President's outspokenness on the issue. Agnew was abroad when Nixon appeared on television July 15 with his China announcement. He subsequently endorsed the Peking visit, downplaying earlier differences. Relations between Nixon and Agnew, never very close, have become chillier. Says one White House aide: "I see the old man's private calendar and Agnew...