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Harvard's ping pong players are organizing. Following the lead of Yale, Columbia. Brown and MIT. Nicky Nichols is setting-up a Table Tennis Club to challenge the already established teams for Ivy League supremacy...
Wide World of Sports. Ping-pong between U.S. and China. 5, April 15. Chan...
...desire for improved relations and the Nixon trip, the U.S. eased its economic blockade and withdrew almost all of its fleet from the Taiwan Straits area. The Chinese were preoccupied with their strained relations with the Soviet Union and Japan. With the visit of the U.S. ping pong team to China and the interview of Chairman Mao by Edgar Snow which indicated that China would welcome a visit by Nixon, Sino-American relations began to blossom furiously...
...tournament was set up by Robert Mendelsohn '73, who is also a leading contender for the title. "My reason for starting the tournament was a social one," he said. "We wanted to dig the Adams House ping-pong players out of the woodwork. But the competitive element is certainly there...
McGill credits his surprising success to a varied arsenal of strong serves and to his success at psyching opponents. "Psychological factors are very important in ping-pong," McGill said. "Talk before a game can be especially important. In my first match I mentioned I'd been in other tournaments and that seemed to shake up my opponent...