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...Failure of Gamesmanship. Using paddles with soft, sponge-rubber faces that take the ping out of pingpong but slice off some wicked spins, the agile and tireless Japanese wasted no time taking the Swaythling Cup. They stuck stubbornly to their unorthodox "penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge...
...power of Mao Tse-tung is virtually immune to anti-Stalinism, according to Harvard-educated Ping-chia Kuo, because Mao has never allowed his followers to build around him the kind of leadership cult that apotheosized Stalin or, before him, Nationalist China's Sun Yat-sen. "The Chinese people are more rational than religious," the author writes, and "Mao understands the temperament of the Chinese too well to attempt the role of a Fuhrer." Kuo obviously gets carried away when he talks of the "basic humanism" and "tolerance" of the Chinese Communist regime and its "democratic spirit...
...Eliot are good. Besides being the largest of the Houses, it also has the most spacious rooms. The library is well-stocked, with particularly good English Literature, French Literature, Classics, and Fine Arts collections and the darkroom facilities are excellent. There is a chapel, the usual pool and ping-pong tables, and a grill room that saves the hungry the trouble of walking to the Square between 5 p.m. and midnight...
...House Library, fairly quiet, and usually well filled, has a particularly fine selection in English and Government, and contains a good record collection which can be signed out or used in the record-listening room. Ping-Pong and pool tables can be found in the recreation room, while popular superintendent Gordon Ramey gives direction to the House darkroom...
...cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished out of the prize money...