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There was a fellow named Harrison who led the U.S. Ping Pong team to China back in 1971, and Connie Chung, the NBC anchor whose parents and four sisters were born in China and who bravely tried her Chinese on Zhao, who bravely professed understanding. Ruth Graham, Billy's beautiful wife, sat on the President's left. Billy was on duty, making arrangements in Europe for his crusade, the only thing that could keep him away. The devil and Richard Nixon...
...South Carolina in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. The 341-ft.-long vessel was clearly having mechanical troubles, but it issued no international distress signal. Instead, the ship and its crew of about 90 men braved the winds and waves, bobbing, in the words of a U.S. officer, "like a Ping-Pong ball in a stormy bathtub." A Soviet intelligence ship eventually appeared to monitor the activities of the submarine and an American destroyer that was keeping watch over the stricken craft, while the queasy Soviet sailors waited for a salvage ship that eventually arrived from Cuba. Said a Pentagon spokesman...
Using special underwater electronic location devices, sonar and TV-equipped, deep-diving, remote-controlled submersible craft, the two main U.S. search vessels, the U.S.N.S. Narragansett and the U.S.S. Conserver, at times seemed tantalizingly close to their targets. At least twice the ships picked up the distinctive "ping" of special electronic signaling devices within the boxes, which are audible up to five miles under water. The sounds were coming from a depth of about 2,500 ft. Each time, contact was lost...
...less awed by her part, as the consul's exwife, than by her boss. "The thing that makes one so frightened is that one has such a great desire to please him," she says, recalling her first meeting with Huston. "I felt like I had three or four Ping-Pong balls in my mouth at all times...
Meet the Press decided to meet the competition. The program used to be like a tidy congressional hearing; now it is more like Ping Pong. Kalb was made moderator, while his predecessor, Producer Bill Monroe, took Kalb's old job as lead questioner. A fourth camera was added, permitting cutaway shots between questioner and guests; in the speeding up, everyone became interruptible...