Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the flowers are in bloom," Chou En-lai promised. Sure as spring, the Red Chinese returned the first service of Ping Pong diplomacy by dispatching its world champion table tennis team to the U.S. Scheduled to begin a nine-city tour in Detroit this week, the team first journeyed to Canada, where it defeated the local talent with Oriental restraint. The Chinese youngsters also showed a keen sense of diplomacy away from their paddles. As their bus pulled up to an Ottawa hotel, the team startled onlookers by bursting into a chorus of Alouelte...
...club met last night at Mather House to set future plans for practice and competition, but hopes to attract the talents of forgotten undergraduate ping pong greats before beginning formal competition...
...this point, Anders Carsson and Charlie Thomas are prospects for the top two Harvard ping pong positions...
Yale's 40-member ping pong team has already been practicing together for four months with a full-time coach. Eli captain David Pardo is leading the organization of a league which he feels Yale can now dominate. Dual competition will consist of nine individual matches of which six will be singles and three doubles. Yale hopes to play its first match against the Crimson within two weeks but no date has been...
...Ping pong in the United States has been booming since Nixon's trip to China in February. Affiliates of the U.S. Table Tennis Association (USTTA) have been signing up record numbers of new players for club play and excitement is expected to reach a peak during the current tour of the Chinese team through the United States...