Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Much gratitude is owed to the members of the U.S. Ping Pong team. Because of their friendly reception in Red China, we will hopefully be able to ease the tensions of more than two decades. Thanks is also due President Nixon, who acted swiftly to thaw relations with Red China. Premier Chou En-lai has stated that he would like to visit the U.S. Let's hope that if he does come, he will receive the same friendly greeting that the Ping Pong team received...
...American table tennis team jetted home from China last week, their trip was still causing reverberations among U.S. adversaries and allies alike. A somewhat shaken Soviet diplomat offered TIME a dyspeptic view of the whole affair: "Mao invites a bunch of your Ping Pong players, and Chou offers them lemonade, rice cookies and a free trip to the Chinese wall. Mao could not have made a better public relations move even if he had denounced his own sayings and told the world he was Mr. Henry Ford's secret business partner. This is not foreign policy. It just shows...
Home Loudspeakers. Even if the Ping Pong visitors had been allowed to see more, they probably would have found little evidence of a police state, though factories have their "thought propaganda teams." The legions of children seen drilling in military fashion in Peking's Tienanmen Square probably do not refleet militarism so much as the fact that the army is largely running the country and organizing it along familiar lines. No outright repression is apparently needed, since the Chinese give every indication of working voluntarily, even zealously, to the point that one observer felt that they literally...
...circuit-is just as much fun; the changing patterns encourage him to make noises so that he can watch the visual effects his sounds produce. With the retarded, another favorite -because it makes no motion that the children would consider threatening-is a sealed transparent tube holding two Ping Pong balls that float in slow motion from end to end, their movement held to a reassuring snail's pace by the resistance of the trapped...
...deals have been made through the third parties or foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms. American companies have been barred from doing business directly with China, and Peking has professed a distaste for dealing head-on with "American imperialists." Even Ping Pong diplomacy has not yet changed the official stance of the Chinese, but they have no ideological objections to buying from U.S. subsidiaries...