Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This spring, with the opening rally of Ping Pong diplomacy, Sato found himself under tremendous pressure to make a move toward China. Yet Sato decided to play a waiting game, figuring that the U.S. would undertake no major initiatives without consulting...
Other leading scholars include the University of Chicago's Political Scientist Tang Tsou, author of a provocative analysis of U.S. failures to understand China during and after World War II; Chicago Historian Ping-ti Ho, an authority on social mobility and population trends; and A. Doak Barnett, now at Washington, D.C.'s Brookings Institution, a protean expert on Chinese government and foreign policy. Barnett long urged a U.S. China policy of "containment without isolation...
...pace of change picked up dramatically last April. The American Ping Pong team was invited to Peking; the U.S. relaxed trade barriers on nonstrategic goods. Old China Hand Edgar Snow returned from a trip to Peking with a piece of news that was published in a LIFE article: Chairman Mao wanted a visit by Nixon, who had said in an earlier press conference that he wished to go to China. In a sly aside to Snow, Mao suggested that, for political reasons, Nixon would probably want to come some time after May 1972. Actually, he hopes to go very early...
...feels it beneath his dignity to display any warmth for or interest in ordinary people. For six days, Agnew enjoyed the plush appointments of Seoul's Chosun Hotel, emerging only for ceremonial functions or to play golf and tennis. One day when it rained, he ordered a Ping Pong table sent up to his room. He visited no American soldiers, Korean hospitals, schools, marketplaces or housing projects. In Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, the routine was essentially the same. In Kenya, Agnew visited the Treetops wild-game preserve, conferred briefly with President Jomo Kenyatta, later lunched with...
...books, music, travel, science, education and communications. Cousins became the Review's editor 31 years ago, and later its owner. Ten years ago he sold it to the McCall Corp. but kept total editorial control. Recently, however, Editor Cousins, 56, found himself caught in a game of conglomerate Ping Pong, agonizing over where the Review (circ. 650,000) would wind up and whether he could continue to run it in good conscience...