Word: pingpong
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...dignified (when protocol demanded), the Prince, aboard the President Wilson, shook off his six chamberlains, mingled easily with fellow passengers, dined at the captain's table, ate American dishes, held a Martini at cocktail parties (but was not seen to drink it), played pingpong and mah-jongg with pretty American and Chinese girls. Said one of them later: "He was just like any other 19-year-old kid. He was very humble and had no front for a prince." Politely, the girls addressed him as Prince Akihito. The Prince said, "You're not Japanese subjects...
...Munsan, the U.N. truce base where old notices now curl and yellow on the bulletin boards, some 200 marooned U.S. officers and men have found various ways to alleviate boredom since the Panmunjom talks were broken off last October. The latest (in addition to cards, pingpong, movies, basketball, pheasant hunting in the nearby hills and sleeping): assembling toy trains from kits sent from Japan...
...people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
...first four rounds Williams fought with the assurance of a champion, deftly blocking Carter's bullish charges, jabbing and stabbing with lefts, uppercutting swift rights. But for all Williams' style, the blows bounced off dogged Jimmy Carter like pingpong balls. The Ike Williams zip, which had stiffened nearly half of his 137 opponents, was gone...
...kings were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets, facilities for chess and pingpong, flower-bedecked gardens, radios and books. There is always, too, a Thermos bottle on the table filled with boiled water. Such things were never before within reach of workers in China...