Word: pinging
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...really been China reading until now." Barred from the country, most Western newsmen have relied heavily on the voluminous material published and broadcast in China, and on intelligence analyses of events behind the Bamboo Curtain. Though Peking has now allowed a slight parting of the curtain, understanding Ping Pong diplomacy, its genesis and potential, still demands depth reporting from the periphery of China and from other continents...
...York, contributed additional insights; she returned from her latest trip to Hong Kong in February. The information gathered went to Clell Bryant, who wrote the story, and David Tinnin, who edited it. To achieve the proper mood, Tinnin led his crew through a spirited doubles session in the office Ping Pong parlor. Deborah Pierce, who supervised picture coverage for the story, served as the fourth...
...China, O China, How restlessly you tremble and stand astounded . . . -Ping, in Puccini's Turandot
...letter writer to a British newspaper last week enthusiastically observed that Giacomo Puccini showed uncanny foresight when he named two characters in his opera Ping and Pong. Perhaps so. The China of the opera was a place gilded with unreality; but what excited Americans last week about the astounding venture in Ping Pong diplomacy was that China was becoming real...
...Peking's intimations of a latter-day open-door policy. It was unrealistic to expect that a somewhat friendlier China would help bring about a settlement of the war, but part of the original American rationale for the war was undermined. If China was turning into a Ping Pong partner, the containment of its threat could no longer be described in American political rhetoric with quite the same urgency...