Word: pinging
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...along with gems, spices and silks, in his tales about the wonders of the East. Now Westerners are getting a good look at what Marco was talking about in the first North American tour of the acrobatic troupe from the Chinese city of Shenyang. Unless one counts the Chinese Ping Pong team, the Shenyang troupe is China's first cultural export to the U.S. under the exchange agreed to last winter by President Nixon and Chou Enlai. It is a delightful debut, a cross between a Chinese circus and a ricksha pileup...
...Harvard ping pong team, in its first-ever intercollegiate match, dropped a 2-0 contest Saturday to cross-town rival...
...case with most Harvard club athletics, the ping pong club is hard, pressed for money and facilities. Saturday's match was a good example of the latter, as the tournament was held in the Kirkland, Common Room, a facility that is somewhat less than ideal for intercollegiate athletics...
...Today's ping pong match will be played on one table and will be officiated by a referee and a linesman. Carlsson estimated that the match would last for about three hours...
...reason Lin fell from favor in the first place was his opposition to any rapprochement with the U.S., Chou added. "Only Chairman Mao recognized that a little Ping Pong ball could change the world," said the Premier, revealing how Peking's first move toward a new relationship with the U.S. had come about. While the American table tennis team was playing in a world tournament in Japan in April 1971, several members had applied for visas to visit China. Peking's Foreign Ministry had turned them down. "I myself approved this decision and submitted it to Chairman...