Word: pingpong
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...oldfashioned, unsophisticated and basic." He does not smoke or drink, and rarely swears. He once joined a country club but soon quit because he disapproved of the drinking the other members did. His recreations center on his home in a suburb of Cleveland: broiling steaks in the yard, playing pingpong, showing home movies. He and his wife sometimes have guests for square dancing in the basement. On his $29,300-a-year salary, he allows himself one uncharacteristic extravagance: a coral-colored Cadillac. It is really not an extravagance, he says. He has to travel a lot in the course...
...said the weary oceanographer, is every bit as tough as "standing in a gale and fog on top of a building a mile and a half high and trying to lower a pingpong ball on a string into a tomato can on the sidewalk...
...chauffeur to answer the car's radiotelephone. An expert yachtsman, Jacob skippered his 59.4-ft. yawl Refanut to victory in last year's 350-mile Baltic race. Marcus was Sweden's tennis champion in the 1920s and is still an expert player; he also excels at pingpong...
Guatemalans have heard similar pledges from military rulers before. But if they were still reserved about the new, nearly everyone agreed about the old: it was high time for Ydigoras to go. "We Guatemalans were living like spectators at a pingpong game," said the moderate daily El Impartial, "looking from side to side as the Ydigoras government switched position from day to day, capricious and unstable...
...those late-at-night talkathons in Havana, and Fidel Castro sat toying with a popgun that shot pingpong balls. "We are the only judge of what is right for our defense," he told the visiting reporter. "I said this to Mikoyan when he was sent by Khrushchev." Castro laughed, and added: "If Khrushchev had come himself. I would have punched...