Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really been China reading until now." Barred from the country, most Western newsmen have relied heavily on the voluminous material published and broadcast in China, and on intelligence analyses of events behind the Bamboo Curtain. Though Peking has now allowed a slight parting of the curtain, understanding Ping Pong diplomacy, its genesis and potential, still demands depth reporting from the periphery of China and from other continents...
...contributed additional insights; she returned from her latest trip to Hong Kong in February. The information gathered went to Clell Bryant, who wrote the story, and David Tinnin, who edited it. To achieve the proper mood, Tinnin led his crew through a spirited doubles session in the office Ping Pong parlor. Deborah Pierce, who supervised picture coverage for the story, served as the fourth...
...ponder the fear of contagion that prevented the U.S. and China from exchanging diplomats or scholars, or from trading officially in even so innocuous an item as firecrackers. They may be even more perplexed by the fact that when the barriers were finally breached, it was done by Ping Pong players. This week the U.S. table-tennis party of ten men and five women is in China at the invitation of Peking. Seven U.S.-employed newsmen also were admitted...
...action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
...Bunting, Johnson, and Weisner went sets of brass plated bookends engraved with the seal of Cambridge. Pusey was speechless but managed an appropriate thank you. Bunting went up to the podium to pose for one of the pictures on this page and she and Vellucci discussed their upcoming Ping-Pong match for the Currier House tournament. Last year they were unable to play because Bunting was eliminated in an early round...