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...They are shooting blanks -they are shooting blanks," thought Kent State Journalism Professor Charles Brill, who nevertheless crouched behind a pillar. "Then I heard a chipping sound and a ping, and I thought, 'My God, this is for real.' " An Army veteran who saw action in Korea, Brill was certain that the Guardsmen had not fired randomly out of individual panic. "They were organized," he said. "It was not scattered. They all waited and they all pointed their rifles at the same time. It looked like a firing squad." The shooting stopped-as if on signal. Minutes later...
While three spectators watched M.I.T. play some very good table tennis Saturday at the New England Intercollegiate Ping Pong Championships at Northeastern, four Crimson teams failed to reach the preliminary round. Although it entered only two teams. M.I.T. took both the first place and runner-up trophies...
After finishing off Thomas and Roth. Ming and Chan rapped with the other competitors about the heavies on the table tennis tour. Once in a while they got up to win a match and when it was over they walked away with the trophy-a ping pong player perched on top of a base. The player looked more like a soldier than a nice guy playing a nice game...
Gupta, an occasional junior varsity soccer player, has been playing ping pong since he was six years old, when he had to wear high wooden sandles just to reach the table. His short height and small frame ??? 124 ??? allow him to do extraordinary things...
Schiemann, Gupta's partner, has played ping-pong for a "very long, long time." Moving very little, he relies on side shots and powerful returns. Nichols and Tjia also have extensive experience...